A Look At The Slow U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

CNN: The last Americans: What's left behind after the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)It is a strangely detached scene for the close of America's longest war: military trainers bouncing between multi-million dollar, high security bases, on Black Hawks, miles from the front line.

But it is how Washington wants this to be. And even though the departure of American troops will be fractionally slower, they will all be inside the U.S. Embassy by the end of next year, making these some of their last weeks outside of the wire.

We are near Jalalabad, at a regional logistics hub for the Afghan police force -- a generous facility that was originally intended to resupply the entire east of the country with uniforms, ammunition, even fuel for vehicles.

WNU Editor: A sobering look at the slow U.S. withdrawal from the Afghan war.