What will beat al Qaeda

My piece was published today on The Hill:

The trade of five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo Bay for American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has again underlined the fraught question of how to end the war on terror. Afghanistan was a main theater for that war, but American troops will be drawn down to fewer than 10,000 by the end of this year and completely withdrawn by the end of 2016. Al Qaeda, the organization that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, is mostly gone from there already.

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Daniel Serwer

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