Afghanistan

Parag Khanna of the New America Foundation interviews with Good Morning America. ... Original Video

Support for this view came from CNN's Peter Bergen, who reported on Thursday that there has been a fundamental shift in popular opinion in the country. ...

In an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August, President Obama made an impassioned case for the American military effort in Afghanistan. "If left unchecked," Obama said, "the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans." Indeed, he went so far as to call the war in Afghanistan a "war of necessity," a term one normally reserves for repelling a foreign invasion or foiling an imminent attack. One of the vitally important points the… more

But Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert at New America Foundation, says that "if US forces were not in Afghanistan," the Taliban would return to Kabul "within ...

Paraq Khanna, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, says Musharraf appears to be on "a self-initiated goodwill tour, ...

PETER BEINART, SENIOR POLITICAL WRITER, THE DAILY BEAST: First of all, South Vietnam, the country we were trying to defend, was not a real country. It was an artificial country. It's created in 1954 by the French as they were leaving. The country was supposed to be reunited with North Vietnam in two years. The problem in Afghanistan may be that we have a government partner that's problematic. But Afghanistan is a real country that Afghans generally believe in. They… more

It hasn't been too often in the past couple of years that you could write about good news from Pakistan. But if there is a silver lining to the atrocities that have plagued the country in the past several years, it is the fact that the Pakistani public, government and military are increasingly seeing the jihadist militants on their territory in a hostile light.

... and what we are supposed to be doing," Steven Clemons, director of the nonpartisan think tank American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. ...

"Those who can remember the past," Arthur Schlesinger once wrote, turning George Santayana on his head, "are condemned to repeat it." Maybe someone should staple that to the computers at The New York Times.

Senator Kerry, Senator Lugar and other members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today.