Michael Hastings, author of the article “Obama’s War” in GQ Magazine, discusses the skepticism among some high-ranking military officers about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, the inevitability of diplomatic negotiations with the Taliban, the permeation of Afghan society by the drug trade and the frightening talk about a 25 year U.S. committment to Afghanistan and the broader region.
MP3 here. (28:16)
Michael Hastings is the author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.
punditman says...
Will US internal economic collapse determine the future of the Afghan mission? Will the US emulate the Soviet experience? As Mark Twain once said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Punditman concurs: it will be the same but different.
