Stuck with Afghanistan?
By Michael Cohen
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 3:32 PM
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By Michael Cohen
This week, I had a virtual get together with Joshua Foust
over at bloggingheads.tv
to discuss the future of US-Afghan policy. Josh writes the must-read registan.net blog, which is all
things Central Asia with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Besides my day job at New America Foundation I blog at democracyarsenal.org
where I've been writing a regular feature: the Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch.
Josh and I spent more than an hour discussing a wide range of topics related to
the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, from the effectiveness of U.S. military strategy
and in particular counter-insurgency, the true nature of the security threat
that the Taliban and a potential al Qaeda safe haven represents to the United
States, rising indications of US mission creep, signs of success in Afghanistan
that need to be capitalized upon by the U.S. military and the changing nature of
military conflicts in the 21st century and whether the U.S. is ill-equipped to
fight them.
Michael Cohen is a fellow at the New America Foundation.
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