Washington: Time has come to end Afghan war and bring United States troops home as Osama bin Laden has been killed, House Republicans demanded on Wednesday.
The US President Barack Obama will begin withdrawing some of the 100,000 troops in Afghanistan in July, with all fighting forces due out by 2014. But that schedule is unacceptable to a increasing number of war-weary lawmakers, who argue that the death of the al Qaeda leader is an opportunity for the US to reregulate its strategy.
“The successful mission that located and killed bin Laden has raised many questions about the effectiveness of America’s strategy to combat terrorism through a now 10-year-old nation-building effort in a deeply corrupt Afghanistan, especially in light of the serious fiscal challenges we face at home,” Reps. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Peter Welch, D-Vt., wrote in a letter to colleagues on Wednesday.
They said it would be more helpful to use “a targeted, global counter-terrorism strategy similar to the intelligence and special operations mission that located and killed bin Laden in Pakistan earlier this month.”
Chaffetz and Welch planned to offer an amendment to the defense bill for drawing down ground troops from Afghanistan. A group of eight Republicans and Democrats were pushing another gauge to speed up the transition from US to Afghan control of operations.
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