At the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday, the alliance’s leaders are to decide the tempo and organisation of the withdrawal of some 130,000 foreign troops from Afghanistan. Central to the decision-making process is the rate at which the Afghan security forces are able to contain the Taleban.
As a prelude to the NATO summit, NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Politiken that in 2½ years, the Afghan security forces will have to, and can, manage the war.
