June 5, 2009
A promising sign for Iraq
It has to be a clear sign of progress in Iraq that Stephen Colbert is planning to broadcast from Baghdad next week.
The indicator chart looks like this:
Year Broadcasts of late night American comedy from Iraq for a USO tour
2003 0
2004 0
2005 0
2006 0
2007 0
2008 0
2009 1
Progress!
Nina Hachigian is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the co-author of “The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.” She has worked on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House and been a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. She specializes in U.S.-China relations and great power relationships, multilateral institutions and U.S. foreign policy.
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