Spring Fighting Season Looms In Afghanistan - NPR roundtable with C.J. Chivers, New York Times, John Nagl, Center for a New American Security, and Bing West, author of The Wrong War.
Lead-in: "Fighting typically picks up from its winter lull as the snow melts in Afghanistan. Some analysts say the U.S.-led counterinsurgency is going as planned, but others argue that civilian causalities are undermining those efforts, and may stall the planned drawdown of U.S. troops."