Inside Obama’s Afghanistan Decision

President Barack Obama spent months trying to make up his mind about a revamped military strategy in Afghanistan. But what went on behind closed doors, while he huddled with his war council? Washington Post White House reporter Anne Kornblut led a group of investigative journalists, who took us inside the president’s war room for the troop decision. Click here to read the article. Kornblut joins Tony Cox to talk about the personalities, the emotions and the outcome of those meetings.

Also on the show, in our reporters’ roundtable: Being black, but not so proud in order to find a job. Plus, with world leaders gathering in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, we consider whether global warming is a pressing issue for poor people.  Can they afford not to care?

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1. Mary C. Curtis on UpFront: Obama’s Security, Unemployment, Climate Change « American Political News says:

   December 11, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   [...] numbers (particularly among minorities), and how the issue of climate change resonates in the U.S. Click here and select “Roundtable” in the audio player to listen to the segment (Mary C. Curtis [...]