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A panel analyzes the challenges in Afghanistan and the policy choices facing the Obama administration.
Pamela Constable, Kabul and Islamabad Bureau Chief for "The Washington Post"
Nancy Youssef, Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers
Karin von Hippel, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program.
John Nagl, President of Center for New American Security, retired army officer, author of author of “Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam,” and on the team that produced the "U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual."
A physician talks about writing a sweeping medical saga set in India, Ethiopia, and New York City.
Dr. Abraham Verghese, Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of "My Own Country" and "The Tennis Partner."
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