Video : Lara Logan Brings Intelligence to Afghanistan Debate

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CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was on the Colbert Report earlier this month to speak on Barack Obama’s then newly announced U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan.

Logan deflected Colbert’s questions with intelligence that took the simple human elements of daily life and the complexities of the situation in Afghanistan into account. Unlike many pundits speaking on Afghanistan, Logan was not intent to hammer in her opinion on the situation in Afghanistan but instead presented the audience with the truth – the situation in Afghanistan is far too complex without too much at stake for anyone to have a definitive answer or make rash decisions:

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