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Bio
Anand Gopal is a writer covering Afghanistan, Egypt, and other international hotspots for a variety of newspapers and magazines. He’s currently working on a book about the Afghan war to be published by Henry Holt and Co.
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Paul Jay speaks to Anand Gopal, journalist for the Christian Science Monitor and many other publications about U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan. “The U.S. administration,” says Gopal, “is currently fighting a counter-insurgency in Afghanistan, and every day they’re creating new Taliban insurgents because of their military actions.” Speaking to whether there is a fundamental change in the Obama Administrations’ approach to the country, Gopal adds, “every year has been more violent than the previous year, and I think this summer we’re going to see a lot more violence.”
