U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during the US Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010, as a new US military mission in Iraq was launched ending seven years of combat. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, pool)
Defense Secretary Gates says Iraq War is over.
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At ceremonies marking the formal close of the US combat mission in Iraq, Gates said history will judge whether the 7 1/2 year war was worthwhile. MIT international relations professor Stephen Van Evera joins Midday to look back and look ahead.
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Stephen Van Evera: Professor of political science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in the causes and prevention of war, and national security policy. Author of "Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict." Former managing editor of the journal "International Security." Native of Duluth, Minn.
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