Iraq War's impact on America's international reputation, role [audio 23min]

Four leading voices of the BBC's coverage in the last five years (Jim Muir; Magdi Abdelhadi; Lyse Doucet; John Simpson) give their varying assessments of how the Iraq invasion and subsequent insurgency developed, charting the missed opportunities and faulty assessments by the Coalition, and the murderous exploitation of Iraq's post-war frailty by Saddam loyalists and foreign Islamists. They also look at how the ripples begun in the Sunni triangle have since spread globally, affecting the political and diplomatic balance worldwide. In Programme Four, veteran BBC journalist John Simpson examines the impact of the Iraq War on America's international reputation and role. Has the occupation of Iraq in the last five years affected America's own sense of itself and its clear moral superiority? Simpson looks at the root causes of anti-American opinion and questions America's effectiveness as a global superpower.