The Outlook in Afghanistan

By Alex Altman | @aaltman82 | June 22, 2011 | +

On our sister blog Battleland, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson has a bracing take on the drawdown strategy for Afghanistan that President Obama articulated Wednesday night. As Mark writes:

Obama’s decision simply locks into place a U.S. drawdown that may doom all that has been achieved in Afghanistan over the past decade. Military success is only the first step in a process designed to make Afghanistan a cogent country able to keep terrorists at bay. The more important skill – growing Afghanistan so it can shrug off terrorism – continues to elude the U.S.

Read the full piece here.

Related Topics: Afghan war, Barack Obama, taliban, Afghanistan

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