The Return of the Taliban

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | May 26, 2016

Last week, the U.S. killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in a drone strike, but it will have little effect on the group’s resurgence or the difficulties faced by President Ghani. George Packer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the Bush and Obama Administrations have failed in Afghanistan, and how Trump could turn Clinton’s foreign policy experience against her.

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