A new memoir from British Middle East expert Emma Sky provides an insider’s take on the Iraq war. This hour, we talk to Sky about her book called The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq.
Later, we also hear from former Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki. He was in Hartford recently for a program called Walk in U.S., Talk on Japan.
GUESTS:
- Emma Sky - Senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute; author of The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
- Ichiro Fujisaki - Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States
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John Dankosky and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
CORRECTION: In response to a question about the 2011 tsunami, Ambassador Fujisaki incorrectly stated that the number of displaced persons in Japan has decreased from 170,000 to 20,000. The number has actually decreased from 470,000 to 200,000.