PBS Frontline aired an excellent program today titled The War Briefing, which explores the foreign policy nightmare America's next president will face in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You can watch the entire program online on the PBS website.
The program is excellent in its own right, and a good primer on Afghanistan and Pakistan. I also enjoyed seeing interviews with some key players in our country's most important strategic debates. To name a few:
Vali Nasr is the author of The Shia Revival, one of the best books available explaining Sunni-Shiite relations.
Michael Scheuer had a career with the CIA, where he eventually headed the Bin Laden Issue Station. He has written a series of provocative books blasting US counterterrorism efforts, such as Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.
David Kilcullen and John Nagl are counterinsurgency experts who advised General Petraeus and are architects of the counterinsurgency strategy successfully employed in Iraq. Gen. Jack Keane is a former Army Vice Chief of Staff who, according to Bob Woodward, used a back-channel relationship with the President to help implement the Surge.
The program also includes chilling footage with troops on the ground, showing the intensity and danger of "the forgotten war" in Afghanistan. It is a worthy tribute to their service.
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