Matthew Hoh: With Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Why Are 50,000 U.S. Troops Still in Afghanistan?

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After two tours of duty in Iraq and serving in the State Department in Washington, D.C., Matthew Hoh became the United States' Senior Civilian Representative and political advisor in Afghanistan. He resigned five months into his contract, making him the highest-ranking U.S. government official to publicly quit over the war in Afghanistan. Democracy Now! interviews Hoh about whether the death of Osama bin Laden means the end of that war. "Everybody should be asking themselves today in the United States, if Osama bin Laden was hiding in an upscale villa an hour or two drive north, northeast of Islamabad, why do we have 50,000 troops in Afghanistan over the last two years?," says Hoh.

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