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Senior American Official Urges Partition of Afghanistan
[Tolo News] Afghanistan should be allowed to part along ethnic lines by pulling back NATO forces, a senior former American national security advisor saidIn a speech at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London on Monday, Robert Blackwill, the United States National Security Advisor (from 2003 to 2004), calls on the US president Barack Obama to make drastic changes in the US's war objectives. Mr Blackwill told the Daily Telegraph that the US should only seek to defend those areas dominated by Afghanistan's Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara minorities by pulling out of bases in the south. He said that the US has spent over $100 billion on Afghanistan each year. He urged that Afghanistan's army and police can be made ready to control the whole country, while Liam Fox, the UK's Defence Secretary has said that Afghan forces will take security responsibilities by 2015. There are around 150,000 foreign forces, 100,000 of them American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan fighting an almost nine-year-old counter-insurgency war in the country. Posted by: Fred 2010-09-14 |
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