Afghanistan, Development: The West is now morally obliged to leave the country in safe hands.

August 22, 2012

I left Australia in February last year convinced that international forces should leave Afghanistan, and that all Afghans must feel the same.  How ill informed I was.  These were assumptions made without having visited the country or having spoken to an Afghan, but I was nonetheless sure of my opinions. Yet every Afghan I spoke with, and there were many over the past 12 months, pleaded that the West remain or civil war would resume.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/afghans-do-not-want-the-tanks-to-leave-and-nor-should-we-20120326-1vulh.html#ixzz24KgTLkym

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