Debating Afghanistan
02.24.2010 at 12:40am
Debating Afghanistan – Paul R. Pillar and John Nagl, from the March/April 2010 issue of The National Interest.
With thirty thousand new boots on the ground, Kabul is set to become the primary focus of Obama’s strategic agenda. But is this the right choice? Pillar, former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, argues that a just intervention has devolved into a worthless quagmire, while Iraq War veteran Nagl believes al-Qaeda must be vanquished in the borderlands of AfPak…
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