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Thu 10 Sep 2009 21:30 BBC Radio 4
The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been travelling to Afghanistan for nearly 30 years. He has seen Soviet occupation, Soviet withdrawal, civil war, Taliban takeover and Taliban defeat. Now, he reports from a country still at war eight years after the American-led intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong.
John Simpson meets the two most senior US personnel in Afghanistan - General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry.
Can General McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan?BBC Radio 4Thu 10 Sep 2009 09:00 BBC Radio 4
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