Pulling Out Of Afghanistan: National Security Council Plans Ahead
By Diana Perkins on December 15, 2010, 11:44 am
The training of local security forces is a crucial part of the Obama administration’s plans to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 and begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011, a process that is slated to end in 2014. The eventual ability of local forces to maintain security in the two countries is how success or failure to a large extent will be judged.
Robert Gates
Crucial in that review will be the opinion of Robert Gates, the US secretary of defence, who has just returned from a trip to Afghanistan. There he met Afghan leaders, including Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and US military on the ground in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, where he received briefings on operations in eastern and southern Afghanistan.
Ideals Of Peace
“To these aspirants of permanent seat, may I ask: what ideals of peace and security they espouse beyond projecting national power; what is their contribution to peace and security in the immediate neighborhood; what tools they have at their disposal to contribute to international peace and security; and how far they have employed such tools in the service of regional or international security; how they claim to represent a region overriding views of the Member States in the region; and how will they uphold wider interests of Member States they seek to represent in the Security Council?”
Important Message
“It would be an important message to send to take additional measures in the near future because I think that’s a way of correcting any misimpression that the Iranians might have that just talking for the sake of talking is going to, in any way, get them out of the sanctions noose that is tightening around their throats,” according to Gary Samore, the National Security Council coordinator for arms control and nonproliferation.
NATO
In Afghanistan, Nato forces in November began handing over military bases to local forces, a sign, said the US military, of the Afghans’ growing competence. But, such handovers have had a mixed record in Iraq, where the process is well under way, with looting and corruption undermining rank-and-file confidence and ruining once-efficient military bases.
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