Stanley McChrystal

The Taliban and the United States agreed Tuesday to hold peace talks, starting later this week. The aim is to negotiate an end to the fighting in Afghanistan.

As Barack Obama begins his second term, most eyes are on the domestic agenda. But the nation is still at war in Afghanistan. Anchor Marco Werman discusses the war with retired General Stanley McChrystal, former commander in Afghanistan.

Amrullah Saleh, the former head of Afghanistan’s National Security Directorate, the country’s intelligence agency, looks at the relationship between aid, corruption, and security in his home country.

The Pentagon has created new rules governing the military’s interaction with the media, following Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s loose-lipped appearance in Rolling Stone.
Todd Zwillich went to the press conference to try and sort out the new policy.

In less than two days after the article surfaced on the internet, the U.S.’s top commander in the Afghanistan war found himself summoned to Washington, D.C. to hand his resignation to President Obama. We talk about similar events in U.S. history.