Mid Coast Forum: Maine Rocks!

February 13, 2012

Tags: Maine, Mid Coast Forum, Review, Speech
Posted in: Afghanistan, Democracy, Embassy/State, Iraq

I recently had the great honor to speak before the Maine Mid Coast Forum on Foreign Relations. The group included not a few retired State Department and CIA officials, as well as many academics, business people and the like, all with considerable overseas and foreign policy experience.

Previous forum speakers have included U.S. and foreign government officials, diplomats, representatives of international organizations, academicians, working journalists, exchange students, international businesspeople, and other foreign policy specialists. In addition, each spring since 1989 the Forum has played host to a dozen or so international Nieman Fellows and their families for a weekend of discussion and relaxation. Some of their previous speakers have included Juan Cole, Tom Ricks, Ira Glasser, Andrew Bacevich, Matthew Hoh– heady company to join.

You can read a review of my book on the group’s site. My entire speech is online now, so please enjoy the discussion. Good, informed questions at the end which you don’t want to miss.

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