The White House website is spelling out the new administration’s agenda on a dedicated page.  The only country referred to by name on the list of new policies is Iraq.  Where’s Afghanistan?  Throughout the campaign promises to end the war in Iraq went hand in hand with refocusing on Afghanistan.  Afghanistan policy appears at the top the Foreign Policy page as “Afghanistan and Pakistan” with the pledge to commit more troops to stabilizing Afghanistan.

Elizabeth Rubin from the Council on Foreign Relations spoke with Film at 11 during the campaign and gave her assessment of the original military commitment to Afghanistan and the fight against the Taliban and how that all worked out.