Robert D. Blackwill served as ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003, deputy assistant to the president, deputy national security advisor for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq from 2003 to 2004. He is currently president of Barbour, Griffith & Rogers International, a Washington lobbying, business-to-business, and strategic consulting firm. A longer version of this conversation will appear in the summer 2005 issue of The National Interest.

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