Has the G8 agreed a five-year deadline for getting out of Afghanistan? This is the Politics Home headline, and that of other publications. Either there are some Chinese whispers going on – or some British spin. None of the foreign media appear to have discerned a new strategy – but for Brits it chimes with what Cameron was saying yesterday that he wanted to be out after five years.
In fact, the full text of the G8 agreement reads as follows…
The Kabul Conference in July will be an important opportunity for the Government of Afghanistan to present its detailed plans and show tangible progress in implementing the commitments made in the January 2010 London Conference Communiqué, including measures to…expand the capacity of the Afghan National Security Forces to assume increasing responsibility for security within five years.
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