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Taliban Gaining Upper Hand? | The Situation Room

August 11, 2009

Peter Bergen interviewed with CNN's The Situation Room.

Peter: I am, frankly, surprised by it. You know, I think that the Taliban -- you know, even if you take the outer estimate for the size of the Taliban, it's about 20,000 full-time fighters. You've got 170,000 members of the Afghan police and army. You've got about 100,000 NATO, U.S. soldiers. The Taliban are a major tactical problem. They're not a strategic threat to Afghanistan.  Original Transcript



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