What's next for Iraq?
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for the senior leaders from Iraq's bitterly divided communities to hold crisis talks aimed at saving his beleaguered national unity government.
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Thomas Ricks, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of "FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq," says the Bush administration's troop surge is not working.
In a recent speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, he talked about what options the United States has moving forward in Iraq.
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