A Coalition Victory in the War on Terror

This weekend NATO forces in Afghanistan announced a major blow against the Taliban. Sunday morning they displayed the body of Mullah Dadullah, considered by most to be the Taliban's foremost operational commander, and a close ally of the Taliban's top leader, the one-eyed Mullah Muhammad Omar. While all this was taking place, the United States was also being dealt another setback in its war in Iraq. Three US Soldiers were captured by insurgent forces, and remain missing. Al-Qaida claims to be holding them. So just how well is the Bush-Administration's war on terror going? And what kind of impact is it having on US support around the world, and the US domestic political situation.

Afghan intelligence announced on Sunday that top Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah was killed early Saturday in a clash in southern Afghanistan Helmand province. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Ni hao, you're listening to People In the Know, your window into the world around you, online at www.crienglish.com here on China Radio International. In this edition of our show, we'll focus in on the war on terror. So let's get started.

First, from an American perspective, we're joined on the line by Professor Andrew Wiedeman, political science expert with the University of Nebraska, who's currently teaching in Nanjing.

(Dialogue with Wiedeman)

After we take a short break, we'll come back and analyze the war on terror through Chinese eyes.

Ni hao, you're listening to People In the Know, your window into the world around you, online at www.crienglish.com here on China Radio International. I'm Paul James in Beijing. In the wake of the weekend killing of a top Taliban commander in Afghanistan, we're focusing in on the war on terror. For more analysis, we're joined on the line by Professor Sun Zhe, Deputy Director of the Center for American studies with Fudan University in Shanghai.