Wednesday, February 01, 2012

US plans pretend withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2013

Based on the pretend withdrawal from Iraq in 2011.
Mr. Panetta offered no details of what stepping back from combat would mean, saying only that the troops would move into an “advise-and-assist” role to Afghanistan’s security forces. Such definitions are typically murky, particularly in a country like Afghanistan, where American forces are spread widely among small bases across the desert, farmland and mountains, and where the native security forces have a mixed record of success at best.

The defense secretary offered the withdrawal of the United States from Iraq as a model. American troops there eventually pulled back to large bases and left the bulk of the fighting to the Iraqis.


More on how the pretend Iraq withdrawal worked.

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