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RAND convened this half-day symposium of experts—including Senator Carl Levin, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Ambassador Jim Dobbins, and others—and journalists to address assumptions and alternatives for U.S. policy in Afghanistan.

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