A progressive debate on how to get Afghanistan right.

Last week, Center for American Progress senior fellow Lawrence Korb debated The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel about the military surge in Afghanistan. The debate, which was sponsored by Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Foundation and is part of the Rethink Afghanistan documentary campaign, will be posted in three parts this week. Vanden Heuvel, who urges withdrawal from Afghanistan, argued, “Military escalation will inflame and recruit more terrorists.” Korb countered that more troops are “necessary but not sufficient” to counter the security threats which emanate from the region. The extra troops, Korb said, will “enable the United States and its allies to secure particularly the south and the east part of the country where the Taliban is strongest.” Watch part one of the debate: