Peace agreements. 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. 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 got
Here cspan3, well stay live and take you to the Brookings Institution in washington. Foreign Affairs Senior fellow michael o hanlan moderating a discussion on afghanistan. It will be moderated by tom bowman. Just getting under way here live on cspan3. Many other parts of the world. Im a huge fan of her bravery and brilliance as she studies these kinds of phenomena so without further ado, tom, thanks for joining us and over to you. Michael, thank you. Its great to be here and thanks to everyone for coming out. Afghanistan is back in the news, thanks partly to the Washington Post and its series, afghan papers. So i hope you have many questions because were going to be start calling on you very quickly. And i want to start by asking michael how he sees things right know with the peace talks and also talk a little bit about your proposal to have 5,000 troops in afghanistan for the next five years. As some of you may know, theres talk about reducing the forces in afghanistan, now currently
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