Camden Conference Talk: Losing Afghanistan- A Talk by Nick Mills
Co-sponsored with The Camden Conference. Since the U.S. ousted the Taliban in 2001, we have spent billions of dollars and lost 2,500 lives, but after nearly 20 years of bloodshed the Taliban seem poised to take over again. What then?
Nick B. Mills taught journalism at Boston University for 26 years. In the 1980s, he trained dozens of Afghan journalists in Peshawar, Pakistan and founded the Afghan Media Resource Center, a full-service news agency. In 2004 and 2005, he worked in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and collaborated with Karzai on a book, “KARZAI – The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan.”
This event is presented in anticipation of the 33rd Annual Camden Conference—The Media Revolution: Changing the World