Grim Assessments

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks explains why he believes the war in Iraq will go down in history as a military fiasco. Then, two nature writers describe their search for the long lost Tasmanian Tiger. And we’ll ask why videocommunication never caught on. Plus: Ken Silverstein, Washington editor for Harper’s, examines the role Iraq’s Interior Minister may have played in the rise of death squads.

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