In This Episode: “I’m not suggesting the Trump Administration is right on this. In fact they’re wrong in Iraq, they’re wrong in Syria, and they’re wrong in Afghanistan. Just like Barack Obama was wrong on Iraq, wrong on Syria, and wrong on Afghanistan”
On February 29th, Zalmay Khalilzad, America’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the State Department, and Abdul Ghani Baradar, a representative of the Taliban, signed the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan. This agreement comes of the heels of a temporary cease fire and purports to be a stepping stone to intra-Afghan negotiations. Andy, Dana, Jamil, and first time guest Katrina Mulligan, Managing Director for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, discuss the implications of the peace agreement on the ground in Afghanistan and politically in the United States. In this episode, Andy commends Amrullah Saleh’s piece in Time and Dana reads from Representative Tom Malinowski’s op-ed in the Washington Post.