With Iraq, it was enough that US voters got the impression they had won. A retreat could be conducted with no US objectives achieved, but nobody could be accused of cutting and running. This was the achievement of General Petraeus, now the military commander in Afghanistan.
But political and military conditions are wholly different there. Dressing up a withdrawal as some sort of success will be far more difficult in Afghanistan. From Patrick Cockburn
Supposedly Karzai will be announcing a foreign troop withdrawal time table come Tuesday.
ReplyDeletePerhaps U.S/NATO will tell Karzai that he should tell us to leave.
There will still be foreign troops in Iraq for some time to come.
You could call it a drift for the exits but that would infer there was some sense of direction when there isnt any.
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