Rebuilding Iraq

Larry Mantle talks with Ambassador James Dobbins, Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND corporation in Washington D.C. about nation building, most specifically the rebuilding of Iraq. Ambassador Dobbins was the Clinton Administration's special envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, where he supervised post-war relief and reconstruction operations in all four places. More recently, his last State Department post was as President George W. Bush's special envoy for Afghanistan where he put together a successor regime to the Taliban and reopened the long closed American Embassy in Kabul. He is also the lead author of America's Role in Nation Building: From Germany to Iraq.