vIndianz.com (Dec. 05, 2009) — Assuring India that the US has no objective of leaving Afghanistan in a rush, a top official has said President Barack Obama’s choice to begin pulling out in 2011 indicated no divergence with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recommendation to continue the course there.
“The President and the Prime Minister did have negotiations about this” throughout Manmohan Singh’s state visit to Washington last week, Obama’s National Security Advisor General James Jones said on Friday.
“The US has no objective of leaving Afghanistan in the near future, surely not in 2011,” he said when asked if the pullout decision indicated a difference with Manmohan Singh’s evaluation that an early talk of exit would only give confidence to terrorists,” he said.
“And we are very positive that by the application of more than 100,000 US troops and a noteworthy augment of NATO and non-NATO contributing countries we would be able to attain the conditions by which the Afghans can take more dependability for the accomplishment of their internal affairs,” Jones said.
That would permit the US to be capable to start to bring some of its troops home, “the rate at which it will happen would be accustomed apparently on the circumstances on the ground,” he said. “But when you have circumstances like this it just can’t be that this is going to go on forever.”
Obama had determined “to focus everybody’s concentration on a practical time frame in which we can see genuine change” Jones said. “And on not there has been no disagreement.” On the opposite to “put it optimistically there has been full concord on this with Obama’s military and civilian advisors as also the international community.”
Further Reading- Despite bloodshed, US to cite Afghanistan progress – Reuters
- Afghanistan Weighs Future With Fatalism – New York Times
- Cabinet reshuffle likely soon – The Hindu
- Govt. will do everything to clean public life: Manmohan – The Hindu
- PM returns from visit, India to obtain information on Headley
- Modi praises PM, Chidu
- PM, Sonia to attend state funeral of Dorjee Khandu in Itanagar – Times of India
- Obama’s Afghanistan report shows troop withdrawal can begin in July – USA Today
- Cameron’s India initiative was scripted by US: WikiLeaks – The Hindu
- Modi meets Manmohan, protests IT notice to Gujarat government – The Hindu
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