Which Way, L.A.?
Iraq Again
As American warships go back to the Persian Gulf - is military muscle the best way to handle Saddam Hussein? Seven years after the Gulf War, what do we know about Iraq's weapons on mass destruction? What about the world oil market and middle east peace?
Javed Ali: Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute. Howard Tiesher: Served with the National Security Council from 1982 to 1987; as senior Director of Political-Military Affairs and as Director, Near East and South Asia. Co-author of Twin Pillars to Desert Storn: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush. Col. Daniel Smith: Director, Center for Defense Information. Retired Army Colonel. Ambassador Clovis Maksoud: Professor of international relations, American University. Director, The Center for the Global South. Former U.S and U.N. representative of the Arab League, resigned after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Yoav Ben-Horin: Senior Fellow, Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies. Former analyst for strategic affairs with RAND. Mike McFaul: Professor Political Science at Stanford, specializing in Russia; senior associate at the Carneige Endownment for international peace. Richard Dekmejian: Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California. Author of many books on the mid-east region, including Islam in Revolution and Patterns of Political Leadership. Matt Lait: Staff Reporter, Los Angeles Times. Covers the LAPD. Allen Hoffenblum: Republican Political Consultant Bob Mulholland: Political Consultant for the California Democratic Party.