BBC News: Reports that President Obama has announced that the US will end military actin in Afghanistan this year, early than expected, and that President Karzai of Afghanistan will be stepping down in 2014.
Lets Get Real:
The Oval wants out of Afghanistan, in this in some respect the Oval has a point, there is talk of leaving a US military presence in Afghanistan to search out and kill terrorist suspects, this would be a mistake, a small force would be a target for the Taliban and their terrorists allies, there is a history of powers leaving forces in Afghanistan, the record is not good, just more deaths, thus US and UK should get out, and lease a military base from the Pakistan Government and place UK and US Special Forces on standby to take out suspected terrorists threats that might arise in Afghanistan when the NATO forces leave. The reason that President Karzai is going is simple, he is clever, he knows Afghan history, once the West is out the Taliban will try to take over Kabul or other major areas in Afghanistan, the Kabul Regime will be living on borrowed time. Thus Karzai will be on the last US helicopter out of Afghanistan if he has any sense. At the end of the day the deaths of Western forces in Afghanistan will be for nothing, the Afghan Taliban will be back, so will be their terrorists allies, they will support the Taliban in Pakistan, and thus folks down the road we will have another crisis. Things change in the badlands of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, but at its core its a death zone for major powers, the British, the Russians and now NATO.
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