On the Afghan frontline, U.S. soldiers see longer war ahead

KUNAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – U.S. soldiers deployed on the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan say the war isn’t going away for another ten years, even after Washington pulls troops from a country locked in a deadly Islamist insurgency. With failing public support for the war, President Barack Obama has announced a plan to gradually draw down the 100,000 troops in Afghanistan and hand over all security responsibilities to Afghan forces by the end of 2014. But ten years after the September 11, 2011 attacks, which brought U.S. forces to Afghanistan, the country still faces a Taliban insurgency that the world’s formidable military has been unable to quell. For Captain Dan Mizak of the…

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On the Afghan frontline, U.S. soldiers see longer war ahead

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