By Harold
It’s amazing how little attention gets paid to the war in Afghanistan, considering we have 100,000 troops there, it’s the longest war in our history and it’s costing billions of dollars at the same time states are announcing serious cutbacks.
So the beauty of having two great universities right next to each other was exemplified when I got the chance to hear two great speakers talk about Afghanistan — Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh gave a lecture on Obama’s foreign policy at UNC, and director Tim Hetherington had a Q-and-A at Duke after a showing of his Academy Award-nominated movie Restrepo, a documentary that follows a platoon in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Continue reading
Laura
Harold
