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A U.S soldier stands guard in Ghazni city west of Kabul, in October 2007. (Photo by MOHAMMAD YAQUBI/AFP/Getty Images)

Seven years after the Taliban, what's changed?

Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/07/2008, 10:06 a.m.

The Taliban in Afghanistan has launched a number of successful attacks in recent months, but some argue that the way to really calm the country is to reform the Afghan government from top to bottom. Also, the U.S. is considering how many more troops to send to Afghanistan, perhaps rotating some brigades from Iraq.

Guests

Isobel Coleman: Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Elizabeth Rubin: Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. Her February article, "Battle Company is Out There" profiled soldiers in the Kornegal Valley of Afghanistan.

Vikram Singh: Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He's a former counterinsurgency expert at the Defense department. He just returned from a trip to Afghanistan.

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