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Washington Post columnist David Ignatius discusses the effects of the U.S. "troop surge" in Iraq, and examines America's options for moving forward.

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"The Bush Years and Beyond"

Philip Gordon, Ambassador Richard Burt, David Ignatius, Ashley Tellis, and David Calleo gather to debate at an event marking the 50th Anniversary and Re-Launch of Survival, the IISS journal. Dana Allin moderates the event.

David Ignatius is a columnist for The Washington Post. His twice-weekly column on global politics, economics, and international affairs began appearing on the op-ed page of the Post in January 1999. He continued to write weekly after becoming executive editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune in September 2000. When the Post sold its interest in the IHT in January 2003, Mr. Ignatius resumed writing twice a week for the op-ed page and was syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group.

Prior to becoming a columnist, Mr. Ignatius was the Post's assistant managing editor in charge of business news, a position he assumed in 1993. He served as the Post's foreign editor from 1990 to 1992, supervising the paper's Pulitzer Prize - winning coverage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From 1986 to 1990, he was editor of Sunday "Outlook" section.

Before joining the Post in 1986, Mr. Ignatius spent 10 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He covered the steel industry in Pittsburgh, the Justice Department, the CIA, and the U.S. Senate in Washington, and was the Middle East correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent. He has published five novels and is finishing a sixth.