October 7, 2009 3:28PM 

# New Video: Eight Years in Afghanistan 

By Cato Editors 

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The United States has been in Afghanistan for eight years and the end of our engagement there is not in sight. In this new video, Cato foreign policy experts tackle myths associated with the war in Afghanistan and offer solutions to American involvement there.

[Watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4lXzptzWTg):

Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent are authors of a new paper, [Escaping the Graveyard of Empires: A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan.](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10533)

##### Related Tags 

[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Afghanistan](https://www.cato.org/afghanistan) 

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