KABUL, Afghanistan – This year's
pullout of 23,000 American troops from Afghanistan is at the halfway
mark, U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces,
said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.
It's a kind of milestone toward wrapping up the U.S. and NATO combat
role after a decade in the war-torn nation - but Allen cautioned against
putting too much emphasis on the U.S. troop drawdown, because the
U.S.-led coalition's campaign is continuing.
Still, Allen said that he knows the clock is ticking on the NATO
coalition's combat mission, which is to end at the close of 2014 - just
29 months from now.
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obama should hold a special ceremony (with george bush present, too), where they BOTH get down on their knees and apologize to all the mother and fathers whose sons and daughters came back in a box. The, they should CRAWL to the front row (where some amputees, not Congressmen, have the best seats), and apologize to THEM individually. Afghanistan is, and will be the same, if not worse, as it was when we went there. The ONLY thing that happened was the arms manufacturers got richer than King Midas. They didn't worry too much about the arms, legs, eyes, and bodies strewn around...everyone THEY knew were busy working on their tans in Hawaii...and deciding which mansion they like the best...
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