Ivan Eland

is the author of The Efficiency of Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool and

Putting Defense Back into U.S. Defense Policy. He writes a weekly column "The Empire Has No Clothes" on

Antiwar.com and has served as principal defense analyst for the



Congressional Budget Office, director of Defense Policy Studies at the



Cato Institute, and investigator for the



House of Foreign Affairs Committee. His writings have appeared in USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Newsday. He has appeared on ABC, BBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS.

Dr.

Ivan Eland

is a senior fellow and director of the



Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute and an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's war on terrorism. Dr. Eland recently issued a report card for administration and gave it an F "for failing to achieve its stated goals in its 'war on terrorism.'" He agreed to sit down with Enter Stage Right to discuss why believes the war is failing and what the administration should be doing.