<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Swallowing the spider to catch the fly in Afghanistan,&nbsp;cont.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p> <embed flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F24645%2F32%3A16%2F40%3A47" height="288" src="http://static.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="380" /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">by Andrew Sprung</span></em></p>
<p>In this Bloggingheads exchange, Heather Hurlburt of the National Security Network tries to explain why the U.S. has to fight in Afghanistan to keep Pakistan from imploding &#8212; and expresses some surprise that Obama did not talk more about Pakistan in his West Point speech. Eric Posner quite effectively plays the bemused ordinary citizen who doesn&#39;t get the logic of &quot;fight in Country A to stabilize Country B.&quot;</p>
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