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  NYT: How Not to Lose Afghanistan

  Authors:	Kori Schake Andrew Exum Bruce O. Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution John A. Nagl, President of the Center for a New American Security Parag Khanna

  January 26, 2009

  This New York Times online feature displays a multiplicity of opinions on what steps are necessary to reverse backsliding in Afghanistan. Kori Schake, Andrew Exum, Bruce Riedel, John Nagl, and Parag Khanna provide commentary.

  Barack Obama has said that his priority in the war on terrorism is Afghanistan, and is poised to increase troop levels there, perhaps by as many as 30,000. How should the United States deal with growing strength of the Taliban? Is increasing troop levels enough? We asked some analysts for their thoughts on military and political strategy in the region.

  • Kori Schake, former national security adviser
  • Andrew Exum, former United States Army officer
  • Bruce Riedel, former C.I.A. officer
  • John Nagl, former United States Army officer
  • Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation

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