PBS News Hour interviewed Strauss Center’s Associate Director, Celeste Ward Gventer Tuesday December 6 on two suicide bombings in Afghanistan by a Pakistani Sunni militant group. Gventer answered questions from PBS’ Judy Woodruff with Andrew Wilder from the U.S. Institute for Peace.
Gventer stated she thinks the U.S. needs to stay focused on internationalizing the problems in Afghanistan and ensuring other countries stay involved in stabilizing Afghanistan. The suicide bombings on Tuesday occurred while the U.S. and other countries were meeting in Germany for the Bonn Conference on the future of Afghtanistan. Pakistanis refused to attend. Gventer and Wilder agreed that Pakistan officials not attending hurt the overall productivity of the conference. Finally, Gventer reminded the audience that just because the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan is declining does not mean U.S. is abandoning Afghanistan.
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