The New York Times: Reports that President Obama will announce on Wednesday the scale of US troops withdrawals from Afghanistan. Of all the options that has been presented to President Obama the one that this blog favours is that POTUS should set the end of 2012 as a deadline for the US surge troops to return to the US, while leaving the timetable to the Generals on the ground, as they have to fight the War. If President Obama takes a heavy withdrawal option it can be argued that POTUS is playing politics with Afghanistan. The NATO Allies have an exit date set for 2014 for Afghanistan, if with the death of OBL, POTUS rushes the withdrawal this could risk giving a PR victory to the Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda. Also let us not forget Pakistan, if Afghanistan falls to the Taliban after the NATO Allies have left this could lead to the Taliban of Pakistan taking over Pakistan, this would cause a War with India and the US, also as noted Pakistan is a nuclear armed power, thus worse than 9/11. Thus there is no easy solution to Afghanistan folks.
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