Middle East & North Africa
Water, not oil, is the Middle East’s most precious commodity
On September 7, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted a journalist roundtable with full representation of the FPS Iraq scholar bench that included comments by Elizabeth Ferris, Martin Indyk, Kenneth Pollack, Michael O’Hanlon, Peter Rodman, Suzanne Maloney and Carlos Pascual. They discussed and framed the issues that will surround the hearings in which General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker give their long awaited Iraq troop surge report card.
