Emma Sky in Iraq

Understanding Our Failure in Iraq

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 8, 2015

Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, and went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure. The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq is her portrait of the complex successes, failures, and missed paths that the U.S. government took in Iraq, and what that means for the country now. 

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