Kabul: US Senator Jeff Merkley has said that the American troopers should leave Afghanistan quicker than President Barack Obama’s exit plan.
According to an Afghan media TV channel, he praised US diplomats and troops, Democrat senator said Afghanistan cannot sustain the buildup of military and police forces – and is failing to reduce corruption – that would hasten the end of the US effort there.
“This nation-building mission is not working,” Merkely said. “We need to do a lot more nation-building at home.”
Merkley said he thinks the US has largely accomplished key goals: ousting the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, killing Osama bin Laden, and disrupting the Al Qaeda training camps instrumental in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He said the American should focus on counter-terrorism, not a more extensive counter-insurgency strategy that neither nation can afford. This year in June the US president has announced that he would begin pulling out the 33,000 extra troops he dispatched to the war.
Obama has ordered 10,000 out this year and another 23,000 withdrawn by the summer of 2012. There are around 90,000 US troops in Afghanistan fighting insurgents in the country.
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