The future looks bleak. If NATO pulls out at the end of this year, the Afghan government may or may not survive a Taliban onslaught, despite the development of 350,000 security forces paid for by NATO, including Canada, which has committed another $100 million a year until 2017. A NATO contingent, of about 8,000 to 12,000, must remain to keep Kabul from falling to the Taliban.
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