Zalmay Khalilzad

former diplomat

Guest

American ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations under George W. Bush; US citizen born in Afghanistan; Assistant Deputy Undersecretary for Policy Planning in the Defense Departments of Presidents Bush, Sr. and Reagan; author of The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey through a Turbulent World

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With the votes still coming in, we’ll look ahead at one of the major challenges facing the next President of the United States: the fight against ISIS. It’s a legacy of George W.

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