Afghanistan Policy
The continued presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan was the subject of a December 10 Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing at which members questioned the Obama Administration’s intended strategy of withdrawing most troops by the end of 2014. The White House has announced that the United States will leave behind an unspecified number of military instructors to train Afghan security forces and special forces to conduct anti-terrorism operations; however, the administration has also warned that the United States will begin planning to remove all U.S. troops unless Afghan President Hamid Karzai signs a bilateral security agreement (BSA) by the end…
