Gilles Dorronsoro

Gilles Dorronsoro is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


Commentary

Negotiating with the Taliban is Obama's last hope.

Officials in Washington are wasting the Afghanistan strategy review's opportunity to shift tactics before another year slips away.

More troops won’t fix Afghanistan. Our best bet is to create Afghan partners who can fight terrorists on their own.

Obama’s plan for Afghanistan is the right idea, but directed at the wrong place. Instead of sending troops to Taliban strongholds, we should bulk up Kabul’s defenses.

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May 25, 2012