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May 21, 2012

How Long Until the Taliban Return?

David Ignatius, Washington Post

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A veteran U.S. diplomat who has helped plan many NATO summits over the years was offering a wager the other day, and the bet was this: How many years after NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014 will it take before the government falls and Kabul is once again in the hands of the Taliban?

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TAGGED: Taliban, Afghanistan, NATO, Barack Obama

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