The Road to War
Colin Powell before the UN
Wednesday, February 05, 2003 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event
Notwithstanding a lukewarm report card from Chief Inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed al Baradei, members of the United Nations remain unpersuaded of the need for military action against Iraq. President Bush promised his secretary of state will make the case to the UN on February 5, but made no further gestures toward the international community. As Secretary Powell prepares to play Adlai Stevenson in the twenty-first century, the U.S. and Great Britain march ever closer to war.

What is the nature of the evidence and will it be good enough? Will a war on Iraq deal a deathblow to the post-World War II European-American alliance? How will a coalition of the willing be forged and how will it defeat Saddam? And what will Iraq’s neighbors do? Please join AEI for a preview of the American case and the days and weeks ahead. AEI scholars Danielle Pletka, Thomas Donnelly, and Reuel Marc Gerecht will join the presenters to moderate and answer questions.
Agenda
8:45 a.m. Registration
9:00 Interpreting the Evidence: The Intelligence Case against Iraq
Presenter: Reuel Marc Gerecht, resident fellow at AEI focusing on the Middle East, terrorism, and intelligence; author of For Their Eyes Only (forthcoming); and former Middle Eastern specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency
The European Reaction
Presenter: Anne Applebaum, columnist and member of the editorial board for the Washington Post; expert on European politics and foreign policy
Where Are We Now?: Military Preparations and the March to War
Presenter: Richard Perle, AEI resident fellow; former assistant secretary of defense; and chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
The Regional Balance of Power
Presenter: Michael A. Ledeen, AEI resident scholar; expert on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East; and author of The War against the Terror Masters
10:30 Adjournment
AEI Participants

 

Thomas
Donnelly
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Richard
Perle
  • Richard Perle served as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, and a staff member to Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.). Mr. Perle is coauthor of An End to Evil (Random House, 2003) and author of Hard Line, a political novel. He codirected AEI's Commission on Future Defenses.
  • Email: rperle@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Gay Gill
    Phone: 3016560390
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Danielle
Pletka
  • Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Before joining AEI, she served for ten years as a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She writes frequently on national security matters with a focus on domestic politics in the Middle East and South Asia regions, U.S. national security, terrorism and weapons proliferation.
  • Phone: 202-862-5943
    Email: dpletka@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Lazar Berman
    Phone: 202-862-5872
    Email: lazar.berman@aei.org
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