Roy Gutman, Foreign Editor of McClatchy Newspapers says Obama’s announcement last week of his strategy in Afghanistan is unprecedented and is a “very good start.” He says the problem has been that, “the United States has not had an integrated strategy for stabilizing Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to […]
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Roy Gutman has been a foreign affairs journalist in Washington and abroad for four decades. Currently Middle East correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, he edited and reported for more than twenty years at Newsday, was a Reuters correspondent for 12 years, and did briefer stints at Newsweek and UPI. While Newsday’s Europe correspondent, his reports on “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the first documented accounts of Serb-run concentration camps, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (1993), the George Polk Award for foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, the Hal Boyle award of the Overseas Press Club, the Heywood Broun Award of the Newspaper Guild, a special Human Rights in Media award of the International League for Human Rights, and other honors. He currently lives in Istanbul.