{"id":71980,"date":"2013-11-20T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=71980"},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:18:21","slug":"nbc-afghanistan-war-could-last-another-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/breaking-news\/nbc-afghanistan-war-could-last-another-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC: Afghanistan War Could Last Another 11 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent<\/a>, November 19, 2013<\/p>\n

KABUL \u2013 While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key U.S.-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC News shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army soldiers with Charlie Company, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division set up a supportive position during a mission near Command Outpost Pa’in Kalay in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province in February. Photo: Andrew Burton\/Reuters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wide-ranging document, still unsigned by the United States and Afghanistan, has the potential to commit thousands of American troops to Afghanistan and spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
\nThe document outlines what appears to be the start of a new, open-ended military commitment in Afghanistan in the name of training and continuing to fight al-Qaeda. The war in Afghanistan doesn\u2019t seem to be ending, but renewed under new, scaled-down U.S.-Afghan terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Parties acknowledge that continued U.S. military operations to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates may be appropriate and agree to continue their close cooperation and coordination toward that end,\u201d the draft states.<\/p>\n

The 25-page \u201cSecurity and Defense Cooperation Agreement Between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\u201d is a sweeping document, vague in places, highly specific in others, defining everything from the types of future missions U.S. troops would be allowed to conduct in Afghanistan, to the use of radios and the taxation of American soldiers and contractors.<\/p>\n

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By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent, November 19, 2013 KABUL \u2013 While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key U.S.-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC News shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1743],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}