Afghanistan Says 4-5 Years to Take Over Security

[tekisui]

Source: Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's security forces will need four to five years before they are fully capable of taking over responsibility for the country's security, its Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

NATO foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, last week on a plan to begin turning over responsibility for security in some provinces to Afghan troops over the course of the next year so that Western troops can begin to withdraw.

U.S. President Barack Obama says Washington will begin to withdraw its troops in mid-2011, although U.S. officials say the withdrawal will not be abrupt and its pace will be determined by the capability of Afghan forces.

"To finalize this process or to take overall security responsibility takes four to five years time," Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Zaher Azimi said on Sunday in a statement, released in response to the Tallinn meeting.

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Even with two terms for Obama, it will likely be the next president (or the one after that) to withdrawal our troops from Afghanistan.

[Bragi]

1. Isn't that what Karzai said 4-5 years ago? /nt

[spanone]

2. bullshit.....

[tekisui]

3. Yeah. And, that is just if everything goes 'well'.

We are never leaving.

[msongs]

4. ya another 4-5 yrs of sucking $$ off the US taxpayers thanks to our war loving CIC. whatta scam nt