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Release					                                    September 23, 2009

AFGHANISTAN REVISED: Andrew Bacevich in Conversation with Charles Sennott

MONDAY, October 5 at 6:30 (NOTE:new date and time)

Afghanistan is in the news again.  What is really happening there? What impact is the growing United States military presence having in this war-worn country?  What role should we play in Afghanistan?  Join in the discussion between Andrew Bacevich, professor of International Relations at Boston Univeristy and Charles Sennott, founder of GlobalPost, to discuss the challenges the Obama adminstration faces in Afghanistan.  	
Prof. Bacevich is a U.S. Military Academy graduate and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.  After his experiences in the war, he earned a PhD at Princeton.  He was a member of the West Point Faculty before joining Boston University.  An early critic of “The Bush Doctrine”, we wrote extensively against U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Tragically, on May 13, 2007, Bacevich's son, also named Andrew , 27, assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, was killed in action in Iraq.  His recent books include The Limits of Power: American Exceptionalism (2008) and American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005).

Charles Sennott, the Executive Editor and Vice-President of Globalpost, is an award-winning journalist with a distinguish career in international reporting, both print and broadcast.  Through 25 years as a reporter and on-air analyst, Sennott has been on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in 15 countries from the jungles of Columbia to the deserts of Iraq.  A long time foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, Sennott served as the Globe’s Middle East Bureau Chief based in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2001 and as Europe Bureau Chief in London from 2001-2005.  Among his many honors, he was appointed a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2005.

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