{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"What if the people of Afghanistan could choose?","author_name":"Cliff Kindy & Neil Wollman","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4552.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4552.html'\u003EWhat if the people of Afghanistan could choose?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter an intense review, President Obama recently ordered about thirty thousand more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. The question is, should this decision have been made by the U.S. government? The goals for the United States are to prevent an Al Qaida threat in the homeland and to stabilize the Afghan situation, allowing for some level of central government control and a face-saving withdrawal. But who else could or should have weighed in on this decision, and what are their motivations? \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nThe (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}