LA Times: Reports on how Robert Gates the US Secretary of Defense will get the US out of Iraq by 2011. The Agreement between Iraq and the USA for the withdrawal of the US forces has allowed Gates to move from the Bush to the Obama Team. As stated before the economic 9/11 in this blog it would have been a mistake to have a Timeline to get out of Iraq, but events change, the USA can not afford to carry two Wars, the violence in Iraq has gone down, the terrorists have gone back to Afghanistan. Thus the USA can have a smaller force in Iraq to train the Police and Iraqi forces to fight the terrorists. The US forces are now needed in Afghanistan, as the surge worked in Iraq it has to work on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The War in Afghanistan needs new ideas and policies, this is a War the West cant afford to lose, but winning could cost more that the West have ever imagined.
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