Obama Playing Politics With Afghanistan

Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Ever since the summer of 2006, when Nato troops first deployed to Afghanistan in force, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have sought to persuade an increasingly sceptical public that they were on the verge of the decisive breakthrough that will turn the tide of the war. The Taliban would be destroyed, al-Qaeda would be deprived of the safe havens on the Pakistani border that it uses to hatch its plots against the West, and war-ravaged Afghanistan would be restored to something approaching peace and stability.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/07/obama_playing_politics_with_afghanistan_248420.html

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