Afghanistan Needs U.S. Troops Post-2014 for Aid: Dempsey
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Afghanistan will need a U.S. and NATO military presence after 2014 to guarantee the country’s secure enough to keep receiving development aid promised by international donors, the top American military officer said.
“After 2014 Afghanistan can live without a ubiquitous presence of U.S. military forces in their country,” Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said tonight at an event in Washington organized by the Wall Street Journal. “They can’t live without any.”