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This week on NOW:
In the wake of the deadliest two weeks for American forces since the war
began, the President this week made a case for "staying the course" in
Iraq. NOW analyzes what the reality on the ground in Iraq means for the
prospects for peace in the Middle East. Bill Moyers talks with Mahmood
Mamdani for context and analysis. Mahmood Mamdani's new book is: GOOD
MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM: AMERICA THE COLD WAR, AND THE ROOTS OF TERROR. He is
the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of
Anthropology and International Affairs, and Director of the Institute of
African Studies at Columbia University.
As America faces record deficits, Alice Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill of The
Brookings Institution say they have a plan to balance the federal
budget. Their recent report, RESTORING FISCAL SANITY: BALANCING THE
BUDGET, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the federal budget outlook
over the coming decade and examines approaches designed to restore
fiscal sanity over the coming decade and help prepare for the baby
boomers' retirement. David Brancaccio sits down with Rivlin and Sawhill
to discuss viable solutions to our fiscal crisis on which, they say,
both parties can agree.
This week, as the Pentagon announced the extension of Iraq combat tours
of some 20,000 troops, across the nation America's military families are
lining up for free food to make ends meet. With soldiers in Iraq making
a base pay of as little as about $1300 per month, are America's service
men and women worrying about their families affording their basic needs
back home? NOW travels to San Diego, CA, home to more than 95,000
military personnel and a city where many are chipping in to feed the
families of US armed forces.
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