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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

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