POLITICO: David N. Bossie’s response to ‘Can Obama split the difference on Afghanistan?’
President Obama’s reported plan of withdrawing 5,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year and withdrawing the additional 30,000 plus surge troops by year’s end 2012 is the wrong policy. Withdrawing those forces so quickly could lead to a power struggle in Afghanistan where the Taliban could crawl back out of the hole they have been hiding in since the surge took place. We must not revert back to a pre-September 11th mentality.