Is Afghanistan the Right War?
Pillar, Paul; Nagl, John
The National Interest, March/April 2010, #106, pp33-43
"With thirty thousand new boots on the ground, Kabul is set to become the primary focus of Obama’s strategic agenda. But is this the right choice? Pillar, former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, argues that a just intervention has devolved into a worthless quagmire, while Iraq War veteran Nagl believes al-Qaeda must be vanquished in the borderlands of AfPak."
Paul R. Pillar is director of graduate studies at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and a former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia. John Nagl is the president of the Center for a New American Security and a veteran of operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.
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