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SUMMARY:Dr. Conn Hallinan speaks on 'The Afghan Rubik's Cube'
DESCRIPTION:Peace Action of San Mateo County will present Dr. Conn Hal
 linan, an analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus. Dr. Hallinan will speak
  about what he calls \"The Afghan Rubik's Cube.\" He will discuss the 
 complexity of the situation in Afghanistan - historically called and r
 egarded the \"graveyard of empires\" - to which President Obama is pre
 paring to send 21,000 troops.Writing for an article on the FPIF web si
 te, Hallinan likens the situation in Afghanistan to \"that frustrating
  puzzle of intersecting blocks that only works when everything fits pe
 rfectly. The trick for the Obama administration is to figure out how t
 o solve the puzzle in a timeframe rapidly squeezed by events both inte
 rnal and external of that war-torn central Asian nation.\" Whether by 
 its former name of the \"global war on terror\" or Obama's new label, 
 \"Overseas Contingency Operation,\" Hallinan is one of many who view t
 he basis for this new strategy for Afghanistan with a skeptic's eye. H
 e will share his skepticism and his extensive knowledge of Afghanistan
  at 7:30 PM on Friday, May 15.Now retired, Dr. Conn Hallinan is a long
 time journalist and academic who ran the journalism program at UC Sant
 a Cruz for 23 years, where he was also a provost. He has a PhD in Anth
 ropology from UC Berkeley - as well as an award from Project Censored,
  which annually chooses what it considers to be the 10 most underrepor
 ted stories of the year. Hallinan's journalism career spanned 40 years
 . Foreign Policy in Focus is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.
 Admission is free. The UU is wheelchair accessible.\n\nhttp://www.sanm
 ateopeaceaction.org\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.co
 m/events/dr-conn-hallinan-speaks-on-the
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CATEGORIES:politics
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
WEBSITE:http://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:http://www.uusanmateo.org/
CONTACT:650-342-8244
ORGANIZER:Peace Action of San Mateo County
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