David Sedney

Defense Department (formerly)

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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, he also served in Afghanistan on the National Security Council staff

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The search for Osama bin Laden turned into America's longest war and a vastly expensive exercise in trying to build one of the world's poorest nations.

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