{"id":79,"date":"2007-09-12T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:23:13","slug":"live-friday-wisdom-from-global-paradigms-dr-leon-hadar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/live-friday-wisdom-from-global-paradigms-dr-leon-hadar\/","title":{"rendered":"Live (Friday) Wisdom From Global Paradigms (Dr. Leon Hadar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; text-align: left\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">O<\/span>ur friend Global Paradigms has just returned from Israel with fresh insights on the geo-political situation inside the region and for the U.S. overall. In addition to having perhaps the best track record predicting Middle Eastern events that we know of dating back to at least 1991, Dr. Hadar is one of the truly most witty and funny people we have been lucky to meet in this Imperial City built upon a swamp. \u00a0 Not sure if it will be on CSPAN. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">http:\/\/www.independent.org\/events\/detail.asp?eventID=127<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.org\/events\/detail.asp?eventID=127\"><\/a>\u00a0<\/center>\u00a0\u00a0<center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold\">Troop Withdrawal: Looking Beyond Iraq<\/span><\/center><center>\u00a0<\/center><center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 24px\"> Friday, September 21, 2007<\/span><\/center><center><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 24px\"><\/span>Forum 11:00 am &#8211; 12:30 pm<\/center><center>Lunch to follow<\/center><center>1319 \u00a0Eighteenth Street, N.W.<\/center><center>Washington, DC<\/center><center>RSVP 1-800-927-8733 or dcevents (at) independent.org<\/center><center>\u00a0<\/center><center>\u00a0<strong>Speakers<\/strong> <\/center><center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Ivan Eland<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><u><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold\"><\/span><\/u><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\">Senior Fellow, the Independent Institute; author, <span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed<\/span><span style=\"line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-center\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Leon T. Hadar<\/span><\/span><span style=\"white-space: pre\" class=\"Apple-tab-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px\">\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of <span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East <\/span>(Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">David R. Henderson<\/span><\/span><span style=\"white-space: pre\" class=\"Apple-tab-span\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Hoover Institution; author of the new <span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Independent Policy Report, Do We Need to Go to War for Oil?<\/span>; Associate Professor of Economics, Naval Postgraduate School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">&#8220;Sooner or later the United States will begin withdrawing from Iraq. Will the result be a catastrophe for U.S. interests, or are such predictions overstated? Can we expect a wider regional war, a safe haven for al Qaeda in Iraq, or a disruption to America\u2019<span style=\"line-height: 20px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">s oil supplies? What can the United States do to minimize the risks of withdrawal? Is diplomacy with Syria, Iran, and other nations the answer? Could Iraq benefit from political decentralization or even gerrymandering for the equitable distribution of oil resources? With the new Independent Policy Reports, A Diplomatic Road to Damascus and Do We Need to Go to War for Oil?, this timely and far-reaching Policy Forum will feature foreign policy experts Ivan Eland, Leon T. Hadar, and David R. 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