The Obama administration has laid out its strategy for stabilizing and rebuilding Afghanistan: sending an additional 21, 000 troops, strengthening the army and police forces, and establishing what Obama calls clear metrics for evaluating progress. Not everyone agrees.
Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, Terry Rockefeller of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, and Kathleen Foster director of Afghan Women: A History of Struggle, and Sean Duggan of the Center for American Progress discuss the future role of the US in Afghanistan on GRITtv with Laura Flanders.
Click here to watch the video (at http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/04/07/rethinking-afghanistan-is-obamas-strategy-a-dead-end/ ).