This debate, moderated by political writer and analyst Peter Beinart (The Daily Beast), features Christopher Hitchens and George Packer.
The panel discusses America's position in, and relationship to, the rest of the world under Obama -- and whether or not his foreign policy has been effective.
Bio
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is an American journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast website. Beinart worked at The New Republic until 2006, for much of the time writing The New Republic's signature "TRB" column, which was reprinted in the New York Post and other major American newspapers.
From 2007 to 2009, Beinart was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Beinart is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, and The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is an author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2008.
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com and writes the new media column in the Guardian. He is currently director of interactive journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife and has been an adviser to the Guardian, Sky.com, Burda, and Publish2.
Earlier, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.
George Packer
George Packer (born 1960) is an American journalist and novelist. His essays and articles have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, The New York Times, among other publications. Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a columnist for Mother Jones.
Packer's most recent book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, analyzes the events that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and reports on subsequent developments in that country, largely based on interviews with ordinary Iraqis. Packer is highly critical of the war, but he in turn has been criticized by anti-war activists for his support during the run-up to the invasion.
(born Aug. 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) 44th president of the U.S. (2009– ). Obama graduated from Columbia University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1991), where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. He moved to Chicago, where he served as a community organizer and lectured in constitutional law at the University of Chicago before he was elected (1996) to the Illinois Senate as a member of the Democratic Party. In 2004 he was elected to the U.S. Senate and quickly became a major national political figure. In 2008 Obama won an upset victory over former U.S. first ladyHillary Clinton to become the Democratic presidential nominee. He easily defeated Republican candidate John McCain and became the first African American president. In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Thank You Fora tv,
Christopher looks great after his recent bout with Cancer, his therapy was very harsh and yet here He is, as good as ever. He gained some weight back, recovery looks good!
Obama wants to do things He is good at, War is not one of them.
Obama is not, never was a military Man, and Usa involved with 3 wars, 900 bases world-wide. How does one get on a horse who knows not how to ride. The experience was and is not there. His talents are wasted on War! Yes military attack on Iran is far better than letting the Supreme leader have nukes! A beleif in a life here- after destroys the present moment, trying to Jam the past into the future destroys the now where the youth have no choice! No Nukes for Iran.
rbaham, "Prudish"? If you're going to try to pass your ad hominem aspersions,and highly subjective opinions about a world renown intellectual's personality as valid (let alone relevant), you should at least take the time to be clear on the definitions of the words you're using.
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