The goal of IQ2 US is to raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues. To provide a new forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis. To transcend the toxically emotional and the reflexively ideological. To encourage recognition that the opposing side has intellectually respectable views. To engage the live audience as active participants who will ask questions and decide which speakers have carried the day by voting on the motions both before and after the debate.
Would be interesting to see this debate reargued today. Interesting that the Burns /Pollack team was not asked about the failure of extensive European negotiations. What could America have contributed to that process to turn it
around? And what could American diplomacy now offer that the Europeans didn't?
Are we to believe European efforts failed because Iran wanted American participation? Do we believe Russia and China will ever seriously back sanctions?
0spiker 11 months ago