FYI: FRONTLINE - Obama's War - Tuesday, October 13th at 9pm on PBS (check local listings)

[Henk Elegeert]

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FYI

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  COMING
TUESDAY: Obama’s
War<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/?utm_campaign=Bulletin>
*Airs Oct 13, 9PM ET (check local listings)*

[image: Obama's War]WATCH A PREVIEW
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/?utm_campaign=Bulletin>
This summer, FRONTLINE sent veteran producers Martin Smith and Marcela
Gaviria and their production team to one of the most volatile regions on
earth: Afghanistan and Pakistan. They embedded with U.S. Marines on the
front lines, talked to the architects of the U.S. counterinsurgency
strategy, and then crossed the border into Pakistan, where many believe the
heart of the problem lies.

The result is FRONTLINE's season premiere--"Obama's War"--an intense,
on-the-ground view of the U.S fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. The film couldn't be more timely, as the
president's "war council" remains divided over the best strategy to
pursue--counterinsurgency or counterterror?--and the numbers of new U.S.
troops needed to carry it out. Indeed, Smith and Gaviria offer a candid
interview with General Stanley
McChrystal<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/interviews/mcchrystal.html?utm_campaign=Bulletin>,
whose position paper and troop request has just officially landed on the
president's desk.

We think this film contains some of the most profound war reportage
FRONTLINE has ever done. Already, the first 24 minutes of the film we posted
on the web last
week<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/?utm_campaign=Bulletin>have
received hundreds of thousands of views--fast becoming what
*Wired* magazine's national security blog calls "required viewing for
everyone trying to figure out America's next steps in Afghanistan."

We hope you'll tune in Tuesday night. After the program, you can ask
producer/correspondent Martin Smith your own questions in a live online chat
hosted by the *Washington
Post*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/08/DI2009100802893.html>
.

Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor

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