U.S. Troops Should Not Abandon Afghanistan

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Karzai is not Afghanistan, nor does he represent all Afghans. He won two presidential elections ? and the United States should do a better job of acknowledging that he earned a mandate from his own people, despite election irregularities. But Karzai?s frustrations with the war and the international community, and his frequent lashing-out, should not be conflated with any desire by most Afghans for U.S. troops to leave. Virtually all other Afghan political leaders I know very much want the international community to stay and remember all too well what happened a quarter-century ago, when the United States abruptly terminated its role in their country.

TAGGED: United States, Afghanistan, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama

Source: http://www.realclearworld.com/2013/07/12/us_troops_should_not_abandon_afghanistan_149752.html

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