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Weighing a Containment Strategy for Iraq

If troop increases fail to control the insurgency, what is the next step for U.S. forces in Iraq? Military and political analysts outside the government are focusing on ways to keep the violence from spreading beyond Iraq's borders.

Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations speaks with Scott Simon about future strategies in Iraq.

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