U.S. President Barack Obama appointed the veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke as his special envoy to the region.
Parag Khanna, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers are Redefining global Competition in the 21st Century, speaks with Martin Savidge to discuss how a troop increase in Afghanistan might impact Pakistan, Holbrookes future in the region and the involvement of other nations.
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He has a point !
knnan 3 years ago
Gads, it's embarrassing... Obama et al are clueless.
Either that or he has an agenda this isn't apparent... like getting more US troops over to Africa to do the bidding of Islam.
CynNichol 3 years ago
Voting under foreign military domination is a totally meaningless proposition. When talking about Afghanistan, the message should be ...US and NATO have no business occupying the country against the will of its inhabitants and should leave, not meaningless elections or the troop movements from one part to another.
lliverpoolarab 3 years ago
should have tought the gora how to say : PARAG Khanna ....nice video , good wrk .
QzVAboy 3 years ago