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Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Why US is Failing in Afghanistan

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Commonwealth Club of California

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: SF Club Office
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 07.09.12
Speaker:: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Tags:: surge; barack obama; afghanistan; war on terror; warfare; failure

Summary: Author Rajiv Chandrasekaran is one of the world’s foremost reporters on the war and nation-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. His new book, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, gives us a startling, behind-the-scenes account of the struggle between President Obama and the military to reconstruct Afghanistan. Chandrasekaran, senior correspondent for The Washington Post and a political pundit for CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, describes the disillusioned diplomats, frustrated soldiers, and headstrong officers that have come to define the process of pumping American money and soldiers into Afghan nation-building. Come hear this expert’s first-hand account of one of the most complex and formative events of the 21st century.

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor for the Washington Post. His reporting focuses on the war in Afghanistan, where he travels frequently to interview Afghans and Americans involved in counterinsurgency operations. Chandrasekaran has held many positions at the Post including national editor, assistant managing editor, and bureau chief in Baghdad and Cairo. In the months following the September 11, 2001 attacks, he was part of a team of reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan and events in Pakistan. He wrote the award-winning book Imperial Life in the Emerald City, which provides a firsthand view of life inside Baghdad's Green Zone. In 2005, Chandrasekaran took a sabbatical from the Post to serve as the journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 17 sec

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02.: The Story of Obama's Strategy in Afghanistan

05 min 25 sec

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03.: Gen. McChrystal Takes Over Command

04 min 30 sec

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04.: Joe Biden's Skepticism of COIN

02 min 44 sec

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05.: American Engineers' Plan to Develop Afghanistan

05 min 40 sec

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06.: Little America

04 min 02 sec

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07.: Requirements for Successful COIN Strategy

05 min 01 sec

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08.: What Obama Should Have Done in 2009

03 min 19 sec

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09.: Operational Failure of the Surge

03 min 24 sec

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10.: Longest and Forgotten War

02 min 54 sec

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11.: Q & A

00 min 24 sec

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12.: Q1: Primitiveness of Afghanistan

03 min 30 sec

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13.: Q2; Unwillingness to Not Win the War

03 min 31 sec

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14.: Q3: Consequences if U.S. Left Afghanistan

02 min 47 sec

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15.: Q4: Alternative Leaders to Karzai

02 min 31 sec

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16.: Q5: Response to the Book

01 min 51 sec

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17.: Q6: Plans for Development

02 min 29 sec

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18.: Q7: The Value of Human Rights Work

02 min 56 sec

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19.: Q8: American Ignorance of Other Cultures

02 min 43 sec

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20.: Q9: Obama Administration More Inept Than Bush

02 min 48 sec

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Obama's Operational Failures of the War in Afghanistan

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Author Rajiv Chandrasekaran details the missteps of President Obama's military surge in Afghanistan that he uncovered in his book The War Within the War for Afghanistan.
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