Building on three sold-out years, the vibrant Oxford-style public policy debate series, Intelligence Squared U.S., arrives at the Skirball Center for ten provocative and informative live debates on hot-topic issues of the day.
Obama's Foreign Policy Spells America's Decline
Panelists for the motion:
Dan Senor and Mort Zuckerman
Panelists against the motion:
Bernard-Henri Lévy and Wesley Clark
Dan Senor an expert on Iraq, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and Middle East and Persian Gulf geopolitics, security, and economics, is adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Senor is an analyst for Fox News and a founding partner of Rosemont Capital. From 2003-2004, Senor served as a Pentagon and White House advisor based in Doha, Qatar at U.S. Central Command Forward, and later based in Kuwait and Iraq, where he worked for both the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). He was chief spokesman and senior advisor for the Coalition. Mort Zuckerman is the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report and is the publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Boston Properties Inc. and a regular commentator on The McLaughlin Group. Bernard-Henri Lévy a French philosopher and writer, is the author of New York Times bestseller American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. His last book, Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against The New Barbarism, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and Public Enemies, a book of correspondence co-written with Michel Houellebecq, will be published by Random House in 2010. Last month Foreign Policy magazine ranked BHL 3Ist among the 100 Top Global Thinkers. Wesley Clark served 34 years in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of four-star general as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. After his retirement in 2000, he became an investment banker, author, commentator, and businessman. In previous duty, General Clark was the commander-in-chief, U.S. Southern Command. From April 1994 through June 1996, he was the director of Strategic Plans and Policy, J-5, in the Joint Staff, where he helped negotiate the end to the war in Bosnia. His previous assignments include a wide variety of command and staff positions, including Command of the 1st Cavalry Division.
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