Nation Building in Iraq

By Robert Siegel

Published August 20, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Robert Siegel talks with Ambassador James Dobbins, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corporation, about the challenges of rebuilding Iraq after Tuesday's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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