January 10, 2006

A Conversation with William Odom

Lieutenant General William E. Odom (ret.) formerly was Director of the NSA, from 1985-88. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute (in Washington DC) and a Professor at Yale University. General Odom has expressed the remarkable view that the war in Iraq is the greatest strategic blunder the US has ever made. In this conversation he elaborates on that proposition, gives a virtuoso tour d'horizon of US foreign policy, talks about the political dilemma we currently face at home, and touches on other subjects.

This is another long show: about 1:22! As with the first podcast I didn't want to edit it down. Just to avoid any confusion – this was recorded on January 4, the day before the conversation below with Ray McGovern, but in my capacity as producer I decided it made more sense, to me anyhow, for Ray to go first. Thanks for listening!