As US troop 'surge' ends,

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:56:51 +0000

In reply to Audacious Raid on NATO Base Shows Taliban’s Reach

As US troop 'surge' ends, setbacks are piling up
By Robert Burns, Associated Press, September 17, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The end game in Afghanistan is off to a shaky start.

Just as the last U.S. "surge" troops leave the country, trouble is breaking out in ways that go to the core of the strategy for winding down the U.S. and allied combat role and making Afghans responsible for their own security. At stake is the goal of ensuring that Afghanistan not revert to being a terrorist haven.

Nearly two years after President Barack Obama announced that he was sending another 33,000 troops to take on the Taliban, those reinforcements are completing their return to the United States this week. That leaves about 68,000 American troops, along with their NATO allies and Afghan partners, to carry out an ambitious plan to put the Afghans fully in the combat lead as early as next year.

But the setbacks are piling up [....]

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