Accelerate Afghanistan war exit

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 29, 2012

~~<p>American combat troops are scheduled to return in entirety from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but that is becoming a timetable that stretches too far.</p>
<p>In the nearly 11 years in the country where the 9/11 attacks were engineered, the U.S. military has reached 2,000 dead, half of whom were killed in the past 27 months resulting from President Barack Obama's justified surge of 33,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2010.</p>
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American combat troops are scheduled to return in entirety from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but that is becoming a timetable that stretches too far.

In the nearly 11 years in the country where the 9/11 attacks were engineered, the U.S. military has reached 2,000 dead, half of whom were killed in the past 27 months resulting from President Barack Obama's justified surge of 33,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2010. Login for more...