In a recent interview on 60 Minutes, President Obama explained his plans for removing American troops from Afghanistan. He said that July 2011 is the target date for this removal. Hamed Wardak, the president of t he Campaign for a US-Afghanistan Partnership, feels that Obama did little to alleviate his fears for Afghanistan.
Certainly, Afghans, as Hamed Wardak explains, do not want to become wards of the United States. What they want, instead, is to rebuild their educational system, to cooperate with America in political and diplomatic areas, to build up their own defense and security forces, and to establish a rule of law. How are they to accomplish all of these lofty goals?
He explains that the United States could enter into a bilateral agreement similar to that that they have with Iraq. As Mr. Wardak explains, “A bilateral agreement would give the U.S. an effective tool with which to demand better results from Kabul. It would benefit the citizenship interests of the people of Afghanistan no less than the security interests of the American people.”
