Afghanistan: Can Meaningful Transition Succeed?
published by Jose Vasquez on 07/26/11 5:28pm
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It is easy to talk about transition in Afghanistan in broad conceptual terms. It is far harder to provide anything approaching a realistic set of strategic goals for such transition, and meaningful, detailed plans for accomplishing it. President Obama’s speech of July 21, 2011 did not provide any analysis of his plans for transition or their cost. He did little more than announcement an accelerated pace for troop withdrawal without any analysis of the risks involved, and without any details on the relative successes and failures of the strategy that the US and its allies are pursuing.
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