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Breakfast at st. Anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on cspan 2. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u. S. , china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. From the Brookings Institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. Welcome. Im mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of mc to say hello and welcome you before i hand it over to tom bowman. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Thrilled that he would join us. He spent time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that no of course is approaching the end of its second decade. Before i hand the baton to him ill introduce laura miller, who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan at the state department, ha
The Brookings Institute posted this discussion. Hosted this discussion. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to tom our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan and elsewhere embedded with u. S. Combat units in other parts of the broader effort there that is now approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. Next to tom and before i hand the baton to him, ill just introduce my copanelist, or miller, the acting laura miller. She has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently, where she recently completed a 200 page study on in afghanistan Peace Agreement, written as a sort of a simulated or perhaps model agreement that parties themselves could consider because even though we are awa
The Brookings Institute posted this discussion. Hosted this discussion. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Hi, everyone and welcome to brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to tom our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan and elsewhere embedded with u. S. Combat units in other parts of the broader effort there that is now approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. Next to tom and before i hand the baton to him, ill just introduce my copanelist, or miller, the acting laura miller. She has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently, where she recently completed a 200 page study on in afghanistan Peace Agreement, written as a sort of a simulated or perhaps model agreement that parties themselves could consider because even though we are awa
Brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units in other parts of the broader effort there that is now approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. , my copanelist, acting laura miller. She has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently, where she recently completed a 200 page study on in afghanistan Peace Agreement, written as a simulated or model agreement that parties themselves could consider because even though we are aware that america is not gonna write the ultimate peace deal, the parties could benefit from some provocation. Weve been talking about having a peace negotiation for a long time but its not clear how specific people have gotten in there overall concepts about how that would be. She is now with the International Crisis group. A remarkable or