Rachel Maddow and New York Times columnist Bob Herbert discuss a front-page article from the January 13 edition of the Washington Post about President-elect Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan, which is very similar to that of the outgoing administration. Drawing a comparison the disastrous escalation of the conflict in Vietnam that President John F. Kennedy implemented upon taking office in 1961, Herbert reiterates many of the damning points he made in his January 5 column, “The Afghan Quagmire”.

—Corbin Hiar

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