Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy takes shape amid a growing Taliban insurgency, and Al Jazeera's Fault Lines convenes a town hall to argue over what he should do next. Host Avi Lewis moderates a panel and studio audience debating troop levels, nation-building, and whether the war can still be won, with General Jack Keane, retired, defending the case for reinforcement against Matthew Hoh, a former State Department official who resigned over the war, and journalist Jeremy Scahill pressing on the costs of continued escalation. Afghan-American attorney Mariam Nawabi brings in the perspective largely missing from Washington debates: what the policy options actually mean for Afghans living through them. The format keeps the disagreement direct and unscripted, audience members interrupting to challenge the panel rather than watching a scripted segment. Running underneath the argument is the contradiction in Obama's own campaign promises, withdrawal from Iraq paired with a pledge on Afghanistan that campaign rhetoric had already turned into calls for more troops on the ground.