Brian Doherty on Getting the U.S. Out of Afghanistan
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
announced last week an unexpectedly early deadline of summer
2013 for winding down the U.S. military presence in
Afghanistan.
Well, kind of, supposedly, or perhaps with the same amount of
seriousness that the administration took the July 2011 drawdown
deadline that never was. The same New York Times story
reporting on Panetta’s announcement also notes that “Mr. Panetta
said no decisions had been made about the number of American troops
to be withdrawn in 2013, and he made clear that substantial
fighting lies ahead.” In other words, there are plenty of American
soldiers and Afghans alike who will be dying for a mistake. Senior
Editor Brian Doherty argues that it’s time for all U.S. forces in
Afghanistan to come home.
You can read the rest of this article at: http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/08/new-at-reason-a-light-at-end-of-afghan-t
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Posted by rbutler
on Feb 8 2012. Filed under Libertarian News.
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