In December, President Obama announced that he would send an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan. In a speech delivered at West Point he said, “…these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.”
Yesterday, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country’s security forces would require another 15 years of Western support before they will be able to sustain themselves. “With regard to training and equipping the Afghan security forces, five to 10 years will be enough. With regard to sustaining them until Afghanistan is financially able to provide for our forces, the time will be extended to 10 to 15 years.”
So Obama thinks he’s going to bring our troops beginning in July 2011; Karzai says he’s going to need Western troops for at least 5-10 years and Western money for 10 to 15 years.
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One of Them Is Lying
In December, President Obama announced that he would send an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan. In a speech delivered at West Point he said, “…these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.”
Yesterday, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country’s security forces would require another 15 years of Western support before they will be able to sustain themselves. “With regard to training and equipping the Afghan security forces, five to 10 years will be enough. With regard to sustaining them until Afghanistan is financially able to provide for our forces, the time will be extended to 10 to 15 years.”
So Obama thinks he’s going to bring our troops beginning in July 2011; Karzai says he’s going to need Western troops for at least 5-10 years and Western money for 10 to 15 years.
One of them is lying. Whom do you think it is?
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