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Five Years After the U.S. Intervention: What Can the U.S. Do to Help Afghanistan?
A public meeting of the Afghanistan Working Group

This is the first session of a four-part series leading to the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Taliban.

This event has already taken place.

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The Taliban, drug traffickers, local warlords, cross-border insurgency, and other anti-government forces are exploiting the weaknesses of an impoverished nation and a weak central government, which threatens the achievements of the last five years.

• What resources can be directed to make the Afghan state stronger and more stable?
• How effective is the new NATO strategy?
• Are the police and army capable of ensuring security throughout Afghanistan?
• How strong is the Taliban and how can the Taliban's forces be countered?

Speakers

• Deborah Alexander
  Former Special Advisor
  U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan (2002-2006)
• John Gastright
  Deputy Assistant Secrety of State for South Asian Affairs
  U.S. Department of State
• Jonathan Landay
  Journalist
  McClatchy Newspapers
• Beth Cole DeGrasse, Moderator
  U.S.Institute of Peace

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