Q&A with David Miliband on the war in Afghanistan
While riots and political upheaval in Libya have dominated international headlines recently, David Miliband, a member of the British Parliament and former foreign secretary for the United Kingdom, says Afghanistan “musn’t become the forgotten war, despite the importance of the events in the Middle East and North Africa.” Miliband, an alumnus of MIT's Department of Political Science, will also be giving a Starr Forum talk today at the MIT Center for International Studies titled “Afghanistan: Mending It, Not Just Ending It.” MIT News talked with Miliband about the need for a revamped political strategy for Afghanistan, where there has been increasing violence in recent months.Q. General David Petraeus — the U.S. commander in Afghanistan — and others have said there has been success in confronting the Taliban in Kandahar province. But recently, there has been increased violence there, such as riots this month in response to the Florida Koran burnings....
