Tue, Nov 10, 2009 -- 9:00 AM
Next Steps in Afghanistan
As President Obama meets with military and
diplomatic officials about how to proceed in
Afghanistan, continued violence there has killed 58
American troops in October, triggered a temporary
pullout of more than 600 United Nations personnel and
resurrected concerns about the scale of U.S.
involvement. We look at developments in the region.
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Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, professor by courtesy of political science and sociology at Stanford University, founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and coordinator of the Democracy Program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)
- Robert Guest, Washington correspondent for The Economist
- Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR bureau chief in Afghanistan
- Thomas Johnson, research professor in the National Security Affairs Department, Program for Culture and Conflict Studies at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey


