Korb vs. vanden Heuvel: Is the war in Afghanistan similar to the war in Vietnam?

Korb vs. vanden Heuvel: Vietnam vs. Afghanistan

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Question 1: Do we need more or less troops in Afghanistan?

Question 2: Will sending additional U.S. troops help to stabilize Pakistan?

Question 3: Is the war in Afghanistan similar to the war in Vietnam? (Now playing)

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Katrina vanden Heuvel has been The Nation's editor since 1995 and publisher since 2005. Ms. vanden Heuvel is the co-editor of Taking Back America -- And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004) and, most recently, editor of The Dictionary of Republicanisms, (NationBooks, 2005). She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Her weblog for thenation.com is "Editor's Cut."

Lawrence Korb is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining American Progress, he was a senior fellow and director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Korb has served as director of the Center for Public Policy Education and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution; dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; vice president of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company; and director of Defense Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.