Thursday, November 28, 2013

Charting U.S. Troop Levels And Coalition Casualties In Afghanistan Since 2002

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Charting America’s Afghanistan Withdrawal And Troop Fatalities -- Reuters

The US is considering a complete troop withdrawal in Afghanistan in 2014 if the country’s president, Hamid Karzai, refuses to sign a security deal. Without the deal, National Security Advisor Susan Rice said that the US will have no choice but to pull out all troops by next year, Reuters reports. While the US has been drawing down its presence in Afghanistan since 2011, it still has almost 50,000 troops in the country:

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My Comment: Sobering statistics on 12 years of war in Afghanistan.

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