Ten years, billions of dollars and precious blood have been investetd in Afghanistan. Now, in it’s 11th year, the United States and NATO are second guessing themselves of what has actually accomplished. France’s President Sarkozy has given notice that France will withdraw a year earlier than planned and Hamid Karzai is set to hold peace talks with the Taliban. Women in Afghanistan are concerned that their liberties will be bargained away.
President Obama, during his State of the Union Address last week touted his promise of ending the war in Iraq had been kept, despite the fact that the country is in upheaval. Obama also made a lot of hay on the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the fact that the Al Qaeda leadership had been largely eliminated. In a secret report, however, the U.S. military said that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to take back Afghanistan upon the exit of NATO, which is to be completed in 2014. ISAF has confirmed the existence of the report, but noted that it was not a “strategic document.”
This would be a major set back for the policies of the
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