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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, May 26th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

Last Saturday, an American drone strike killed the Taliban's leader, Mullah Mansour.

President Obama confirmed the death on Monday.

He is an individual who, as head of the Taliban, was specifically targeting U.S. personnel

and troops inside of Afghanistan who are there as part of the mission that I've set to be able

to maintain a counterterrorism platform and provide assistance and training to the Afghan

military forces there. We are not reentering the day-to-day combat operations that are

currently being conducted by Afghan security forces. Our job is to help Afghanistan secure its own

country. George Packer joins me to discuss why the Taliban is resurgent and how the instability in Afghanistan could affect the presidential campaign in the United States.

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