Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?

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We’re joined by Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times, to talk about similarities between the continued war in Afghanistan and other ill-defined conflicts in America’s past. He outlines this in his article for The New York Times, “Could Afghanistan Become Obama’s Vietnam?”

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