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The Coalition of the Withdrawing

January 27, 2012 at 6:18 PM Leave a comment

Maybe the US should take a lesson:

Photo: Philippe Wojazer/AP

France Will Speed up Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan by One Year

France said Friday that it will accelerate the pullout of its combat forces from Afghanistan by one year, to the end of 2013, and in concert with Afghanistan urged NATO to hand over all combat operations to the Afghan army by the same date.

President Nicolas Sarkozy made the unexpected proposal with the visiting Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, standing at his side. The French-Afghan initiative, which would speed up the agreed NATO timetable by one year, dramatized growing uncertainty—in Afghanistan as well as NATO countries—over the wisdom and effectiveness of the U.S.-led military campaign to force the Taliban to submit to Karzai’s U.S.-supported government.

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