Economic costs of military operations in Iraq [audio 51min]

Some analysts estimate that the U.S. is spending about $12 billion dollars a month to fund military operations in Iraq. Award-winning journalist Diane Rehm explores different views on the economic costs of the war and what we gained as a result. Her guests are Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; Linda Bilmes, Professor, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Winslow Wheeler, director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information; and Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, author of The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars from the Revolution to the War on Terror, and a former member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.