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Article: US at the 'Pivot' of the World.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 18, 2005
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Byline: The Monitor's View
Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a plea last week to visiting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the US military make itself at home with a long-term presence in his country.
The often poker-faced Mr. Rumsfeld was noncommittal, as well he should be.
It is one thing for the United States to liberate Afghanistan of Taliban rule and Al Qaeda terrorist camps, as it did in 2001 after Sept. 11. And the 17,000 US forces still in that Central Asian nation are helping it fight jihadist remnants, rebuild the country, and curb the opium trade.
But the US should resist the temptation to leave a big American ...