Minnesota troops facing an unstable Afghanistan

130 soldiers from a Minnesota-based Army Reserve unit are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan later this year. MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Ronald Neumann, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007. He's now president of the the American Academy of Diplomacy.

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