Many things in the Middle East right now are being viewed in the U.S. through the lens of the Presidential election.
A former Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N. says that obscures the complexity of the situation there. GLT's Charlie Schlenker talks with Feisal Al Istrabadi in advance of the Ambassador's education week keynote address at ISU Tuesday. The Ambassador will talk about the democratic transition in Iraq, about which he says he is relatively skeptical, Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the Prairie Room of ISU's Bone Student Center.
He has also been a trial lawyer and law school professor in the U.S. and is the founding director for the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University. The Ambassador says there does not seem to be a lot of campaign discussion about the long term interests of the United States.
