“US should work for settling the conflict among Afghan parties”
Published: 30 October, 2009, 03:56
Afghanistan, Farah province: US Marines from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines climb through mountainside caves suspected of being used by Taliban fighters while on patrol through an Afghan village in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on September 29, 2009. (AFP Photo / David Furst)
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The Bush administration did the country an ill service by switching attention from Afghanistan to Iraq, and now putting more troops in Afghanistan is not what US needs to do, anti-war activist Ann Wright told RT.
“It’s in the interest of the US to disengage,” Wright said. “We need to remove our troops from there.”
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