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New book gives inside story of war in Afghanistan

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Tags: Michael Hastings, The Operators, Stanley McChrystal, Afganistan, Iraq war, Pentagon

On the first part of today’s program we’ll hear from journalist Michael Hastings who has written a behind-the-scenes account of or military leadership in the war Afghanistan.

Last year award-winning journalist Hastings wrote an article in Rolling Stone that made headlines around the world and resulted in the firing of the U.S. commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan. Hastings’s account of the blunt, dismissive remarks made by General Stanley McChry...