CNN Wolf February 25, 2014 18:16:00
Case they get an agreement, roughly around 10,000 troops staying. that would be enough to help train and advise afghan troops to conduct some counterterrorism operations, to go after taliban and al qaeda. but you've really put your finger on it. if they can't do that, then the war might be over, technically, for u.s. troops, but the threat is not. if you don't have u.s. troops in afghanistan, how do you conduct drone operations, how do you go after al qaeda and taliban, both on the afghan side and perhaps more importantly how do you go after them on the pakistan side of the border, where there...
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