Calls for Withdrawal from Afghanistan

With the entrance into a new year many critics of the war in Afghanistan will renew their calls for the withdrawal in Afghanistan.  One such critic, Doug Bandow -a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute - has analyzed what we are trying to accomplish in Afghanistan and determined we do not need to be there.  He says our original objectives of destroying al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan and punishing the Taliban for hosting al Qaeda have been accomplished - early on in the war.  He sees no real need to stay and cites a body count of 1,369 Americans in 2010 as unnecessary.  Read his article in "Dying for What in Afghanistan?", The Huffington Post, January 1, 2010.  Read more news on the Afghanistan War.