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Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith will join us to discuss his new book The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. Ambassador Galbraith has followed Iraq for the twenty-six years, mostly in different roles for the US government. He is credited with uncovering the start of Saddam's genocidal anfal campaign against the Kurds in 1987 and with getting the US Senate to unanimously pass comprehensive sanctions on Iraq in 1988. He was in Iraq during such historic turning points as the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitution. Galbraith's writings on Iraq have drawn praise from such diverse sources as The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Richard Cohen, David Brooks, David Frum, William F. Buckley, Richard Holbrooke, and Arthur Schlesinger.

Peter Galbraith is currently the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and principal of a Vermont based firm that specializes in international negotiations. From 1993 to 1998 Peter Galbraith served as U.S. Ambassador to Croatia where he was co-mediator and principal architect of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia by providing for peaceful reintegration of Serb-held Eastern Slavonia into Croatia.