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While the plan has a "reasonable chance for some success," analyst Nicholas Schmidle said that it may not be a long-term solution. "So long as the Americans ...

... very, very temporary allegiance," said Nicholas Schmidle, an expert on the Afghanistan-Pakistan region for the nonpartisan New America Foundation. ...

They do have a deeply felt antagonism of anyone trying to control them or occupy their government," said Steve Clemons, an expert on Afghanistan for the ...

PETER BEINART, SENIOR FELLOW, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Well, because I think the one thing the Nobel Peace Prize really offers is publicity. The real value of this award is to shine a light on some very dark corner of the world and some person struggling in the shadows, in a brutal situation, a place like the Congo or North Korea. That's when -- when they gave it to Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma or then gave it to… more

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

Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism analyst, called the repetition "a huge problem." "It is suposed to be a lessons-learned exercise," Bergen said. ...

But CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen and law enforcement analyst Mike Brooks say not to read too much into it -- the rush of arrests is a ... and more »

PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: The kinds of information that was given up by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after being interrogated were about various plots they had on the drawing board to attack the United States a second time. But most of these plots were not serious. ... Original Transcript