Cameron will never withdraw from Afghanistan because Obama won't allow it. Maintaining the illusion of a "united front" is way more important than doing the right thing.

Obama has now signed an agreement to stay there for another twelve years. NATO countries keep saying a key part of "The Mission" is training. How long have the Afghan "security forces" been training? Over ten years now. Yet, they'll need "more time"? If a commanding officer told Cameron new recruits would need ten years of training, they'd be laughed out of the military. However, because it's Afghanistan, it's okay?

The only reason the US is staying there is because China (who funds the US govt.) is allowing it. If they dump their US debt, the war's over. Whether Obama likes it or not.

If you have no thoughts how to compose your essay, you should buy college papers online.

The NS article asserts that "Tens of thousands of innocent Afghans have been killed since 2001" but it is estimated 4.2 million Afghans who have died from war-imposed deprivation under US Occupation, about 2.6 million of these war-related avoidable deaths being of under-5 . year old infants. The racist, war criminal US military does not report the number of civilians it kills but based on Iraq War comparisons (1.5 million violent deaths since 2003 according to US Just Foreign Policy: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/ ) one can estimate 1.4 million violent deaths in US-occupied Afghanistan for a total of 5.6 million post-invasion war-related deaths, a death toll comparable with that of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) (see Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ).

The estimate from UN Population Division data of 2.6 million avoidable under-5 infant deaths in US Alliance-occupied Afghanistan (UNICEF indicated about 0.2 million under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan an each year: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan_statistics.html ) points to an immense war crime by the US Alliance Occupiers in gross violation of the Geneva Convention.

Thus Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War demand unequivocally that an Occupier must provide its conquered subjects with life-sustaining food and medical supplies "to the fullest extent of the means available to it " (see: http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/full/380 ). However the World Health Organization (WHO) informs that 'annual per capita total health expenditure" permitted by the US Alliance Occupiers in Afghanistan is a mere US$69 as compared to US$7,410 for the US (see: http://www.who.int/countries/en/ ). Bush, Obama, Blair,m Brown, Cameron, Sarkozy, Merkel, Harper, Howard, Rudd, Gillard and their associates should be arraigned before the International Criminal Court.

However it is not just Afghan children being killed by the Afghan War. It is estimated that 1 million people have died globally since 2001 due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to 90% of world market share (this carnage including 200,000 Americans, 18,000 British and 3,700 Australians) (for details and documentation see see Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ).

The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-beholden Anglo-Americans responsible for this carnage of their fellow citizens should be brought to account via the ballot box and the judicial system. Indeed itc an be estimated that 1 million Americans and 66,000 Australians die preventably each year due to warped , pro-war, pro-Zionist, NAZI-promoted fiscal priorities involving killing millions of Muslim abroad rather than keeping their fellow citizens alive at home (see: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21696 and http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210212.htm ) .

The wars against Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya served no interest but capitalism’s, did not ‘save lives’ but killed more people, brought not democracy but disaster, disorder, widespread use of torture, warring tribes, break-up of the country, and foreign exploitation, to those countries. These wars have cost an estimated $3 trillion, have raised oil prices and cut incomes, jobs and GDP.
Likewise, war against Syria or Iran would serve no interest but capitalism’s, would not ‘save lives’ but would kill more people, would bring not democracy but disaster, disorder, widespread use of torture, warring tribes, break-up of the country and foreign exploitation. War on Syria or Iran would raise oil prices yet more and cut incomes, jobs and GDP.
All this self-righteous do-gooding does not actually do any good.

Yet the internet is full of ‘humanitarian’ bodies, activists and celebrities (including the blessed Stephen Fry) howling for war on Syria.
US troops in Afghanistan seem to be fighting terrorism by desecrating bodies, burning books and massacring women and children. Pulling British and American troops out of Afghanistan could reduce the threat of terrorism in the West, said the International Institute for Strategic Studies recently. It said that a less visible security presence in the region could reduce extremist attacks.