Goodbye Afghanistan, hello Asia-Pacific
Posted by seumasach on May 28, 2014
A good analysis with the proviso that the Asia pivot itself amounts to nothing:
Jim Lobe
28th May, 2014
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama announced Tuesday his intention to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016. In a statement from the White House Rose Garden, Obama said he expects to reduce US troops levels from the roughly 32,000 which remain there now to 9,800 by the end of this year, and to cut that number by about half by the end of 2015.
In These New Times 
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