ROBERT REILLY: Now, our speaker tonight is
as you know Dr. Kenneth Pollack who's a resident
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
where he works on Middle Eastern political
affairs, focusing on those countries in the
Gulf.
He served twice at the National Security Council
first as director for near eastern of asian
affairs and then as director for Persian Gulf
affairs.
He began his career as a CIA analyst where
he was the principal author of
the
CIA's
classified post-mortem on 
Iraqi strategy
and military operations
during
the Persian
Gulf war.
