Sunday, February 27, 2011

Afghanistan: U.S. army is strategically important valley on

The army leadership once called the region of vital importance, but now that U.S. troops pull out of the Pech Valley back in Afghanistan. The local military must now fight alone against the Taliban - a serious stress test. The United States defended the move as part of its new anti-terror strategy - but in the Afghan army makes the decision for concern: the Americans in the Pech Valley of Kunar Province in the east of the country have left a valley Years ago they called a key region in the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida.


The Afghan soldiers, it is a test: If they claim to be able to embattled regions even without the U.S. allies? have begun since the U.S. troops ten days ago with the withdrawal from Pech Valley, concern is growing among Afghans that they are able not only to compete against the Taliban.

U.S. military to defend the decision in The New York Times, however: "It must not give the impression that we give up the pitch valley." But the ultimate goal is to improve the security situation throughout Afghanistan, said Major General John F. Campbell of the U.S. newspaper. The U.S.

wants to withdraw its troops gradually from Afghanistan - until then the land left to complete in 2014 the domestic military. Barack Obama for president but the first troops increased again: the current situation, with about 100,000 as many U.S. soldiers in the country like never before.

The departure from the pitch-valley, which lies above Jalalabad is this part of the new Afghanistan strategy of the former NATO General Stanley A. McChrystal. 2009 determined his staff 80 key regions, to which defense should focus the NATO troops. The Pech Valley was not among them. Even the embattled outpost in the province of Nuristan and the Korangal Valley intends to give the U.S. military soon. Campbell founded the deduction in the New York Times "with the little progress in the valley:" When we try to keep the status quo where we are then in a year There are regions in which we improve the safety and where there is real progress. " There are also regions that were not prepared for it, "and I have my powers used where they can move the most.

According to the U.S. newspaper the retreat is not only for the Afghan armed forces is a problem: fear American soldiers would now step up their efforts and sacrifices may have been in vain. Many hundreds of them had been wounded there, 103 were killed in the valley.

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