Introduction of Debaters

Moderator Margaret Warner, senior correspondent of PBSs The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, introduces the four participants in the second debate in Season Two of the Miller Center's National Discussion and Debate Series. The event, held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2009, examined the following resolution: American cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran, and must go to any lengths to prevent it. Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Joshua Muravchik, Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies, argued in favor of the resolution. Ambassador Martin S. Indyk, Director of the Brookings Institutions Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Karim Sadjadpour, associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argued against.

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