Afghanistan is Improving

Fire of Liberty

Well, things must be going pretty well in Afghanistan for the US to reduce its troop strength by some 2,500 by next year. While we will be supplementing these troops with a contingent of NATO troops, it demonstrates that the things on the ground has evolved from a war-fighting mission to one that simply requires a peace keeping force structure that our friends in NATO seem to excel in. I guess this is what can happen when you let the military do what it needs to do and remove all the silliness of timelines and withdrawals that the folks in Washington keep on screaming about in the case of Iraq. You've got to hand it to the US soldiers, our NATO and Afghan allies as well as the Afghan people who have made it possible for this once prevelant hotbed of terrorism to transform into an emerging democracy. Let's hope that our efforts in Iraq have the same result.