>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: New Afghan Army
>Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 05:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>[Just don't call it nation building!]
>
>Financial Times -- World New Digest
>Lydia Adetunji, Washington
>
>Troops set for long Afghan stay
>
>US troops will remain in Afghanistan for years to prevent al-Qaeda and
>Taliban forces from regrouping or re-entering the country, General Tommy
>Franks, the head of US central command, and Donald Rumsfeld, the defence
>secretary, acknowledged yesterday.
>
>General Franks did not predict how long it would be before the maturation
>of the Afghan government and the training of Afghan forces would mean US
>troops were needed less.
>
>Mr. Rumsfeld said US troops in Afghanistan -- currently numbering about
>8,000 -- had moved from deposing the Taliban to preventing it from "taking
>the country back over and turning it into a terrorist training camp."
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