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HARDtalk: Emma Sky - Political Advisor to the Commander of US Forces in Iraq (2007 - 2010)

Emma Sky, a former political adviser to Commander of US Forces in Iraq

22/05/2015

Emma Sky - Political Advisor to the Commander of US Forces in Iraq (2007 - 2010)

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Emma Sky - Political Advisor to the Commander of US Forces in Iraq (2007 - 2010)

A former senior advisor to the US military in Iraq discusses the country's past and future

Stephen Sackur talks to a former senior advisor to the US military in Iraq. Can she trace the roots of the problems there? And what should America and the West be doing now?

When the self-styled Islamic State movement took control of Ramadi, capital of Iraq's Anbar province, it was another humiliation for the Baghdad government and another discomforting development for the United States which has bombed IS, but failed to neutralise the jihadi threat. Stephen Sackur talks to Emma Sky, a British woman who was a senior advisor to the US military in Iraq until 2010. Where do the roots of the current mess lie, and what should America and the West be doing now?

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