Afghanistan Review - Crisis In Kabul?

Despite the early success of toppling the Taliban in 2001, insurgent attacks are up to their highest levels since the beginning of the US involvement. And suicide bombings are up some 30% in some areas. This has led the Pentagon and NATO to start a series of reviews of operations in Afghanistan, which has started to highlight many problems for the forces there, including long-standing shortfalls in equipment. Reportedly, some Europeans officials are wondering if Afghanistan isn't becoming what it was for the British and the Russians: a doomed operation. Larry talks with Carlotta Gall, Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent for The New York Times, Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow on South Asia at the Heritage Foundation, and Larry Goodson, Director of Middle East Studies at the Army War College about the war in Afghanistan and where it's headed. [ Listen ] Click here: 89.3 KPCC AirTalk hosted by Larry Mantle