President Obama is expected to announce his decision on troop levels in Afghanistan this week. When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he’ll draw not only from America’s experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union’s as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert Smith about the president’s deliberations. Riedel served as a CIA agent in the region under now-Defense Secretary Robert Gates; he also chaired the first Afghan policy review completed this spring
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