Is it time for a withdrawal strategy in Afghanistan?
By Kevin Woster
Barack Obama has given us a timetable to get most combat troops out of Iraq.
He’s doing the opposite in Afghanistan, adding rather than subtracting combat troops and the inevitable human casualties that go with them.
Robert Hunter, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO who know works for the Rand Corporation, said on C-Span’s Washington Journal this morning that the country needs to have a discussion on whether this increased military presence in Afghanistan is wise.
Should we, instead, be developing an exit strategy? Or is the security of the U.S. so dependent on Afghanistan that we must stay, and suffer the costs, both human and financial?