New Report From The Century Foundation Calls for 'Normal' Relationship With Post-Occupation...

New Report From The Century Foundation Calls for 'Normal' Relationship With
Post-Occupation Iraq

Forum Takes Up Ellen Laipson Call for Downsizing U.S. Goals to Fit Iraqi
Realities

What: Forum on and Release of new Report from The Century Foundation, America
and the Emerging Iraqi Reality: New Goals, No Illusions.

When:Monday, June 9, 2008, 1p.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: 1111 19th Street, between L & M Streets (Henry L. Stimson Center, 12th
Fl. Conference Room) Washington, D.C.

Who:Ellen Laipson, president of the Stimson Center and former vice-chair of
the National Intelligence Council, author of America and the Emerging Iraqi
Reality: New Goals, No Illusions.

Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief, Al Arabiya News Channel

RSVP needed as space is limited.

Iraq remains one of the most important issues for voters in the 2008 U.S.
presidential election season. Iraqis too will make choices in provincial
elections in Fall 2008 and national elections in December 2009. A new U.S.
administration could find itself with new Iraqi politicians setting Iraq's
policy and taking positions on the U.S. military presence in the country,
among other issues. In her report, Ellen Laipson details how these political
cycles create opportunities for new thinking and new approaches about U.S.
policy toward Iraq. This report argues that the United States has to set its
strategic goals in the region independently of how Iraq's political dramas
play out, and offers ways to retool U.S. policy in the region. Laipson will
discuss her recommended approach at the forum. Hisham Melhem will offer an
Arab world perspective on the ramifications of changes in U.S. policy.

CONTACT:Christy Hicks, +1-212-452-7723, hicks@tcf.org, or Laurie Ahlrich,
+1-212-452-7722, ahlrich@tcf.org, both of The Century Foundation

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- June 5/

SOURCE The Century Foundation