We discuss continued crisis in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Obama policies there and in Iran. Let's have a surge of doctors, not military...Camillo Mac Bica. And post election Iran, a scholar's analysis.
Does Obama have legal authority to escalate the war in Afghanistan? --Sherwood Ross. And a down side to Americas agreement to use of Russian territory to resupply US in Afghanistan. He calls it cynical power politics, the people who are going to suffer from shipment of war materials across Russian territory will be the people of Afghanistan, particularly the Pashtun tribesmen.
Produced by Dori Smith and David Haseltine
Clip of song about woman killed in Iran during protests. Brief clip from NPRs Talk of the Nation, Trita Parsi
WHUS public affairs director David Haseltine looks at the post election demonstration movement with Professor Cyrus E. Zirakzadeh, an expert on Comparative Social Movements in the Political Science Department at the University of Connecticut. He talks about the people involved in the protest, the political figures, and offers his analysis on where Iranians go from here. -- This is from a much longer interview conducted by Haseltine which was unique in perspective and full of important information about Iranian society and the differences between groups engaging in protest and politics.