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10:00Hamid Karzai's 2nd Term and U.S. Strategy for Afghanistan

Guest host: Susan Page

U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. How Afghan President Karzai victory might influence the Obama administration’s deliberations on troop levels.

Guests

David Ignatius, columnist, "The Washington Post;" co-moderator of "PostGlobal" on washingtonpost.com.

Richard Fontaine, senior fellow for the Center for a New American Security. He previously served as foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain. He has worked at the State Department, the National Security Council and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Karin von Hippel, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program.

11:00Lee Eisenberg: "Shoptimism" (Free Press)

Guest host: Susan Page

A look at America's love/hate relationship with shopping: Why we crave that little black dress or power tool, and what the things we buy say about our character.

Guests

Lee Eisenberg, visiting scholar, University of Pennsylvania,former editor-in-chief at Esquire Magazine and former vice president at Land's End.

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