Cato Handbook for Policymakers: U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Cato Handbook for Policymakers: U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan

Shortly after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, President George W. Bush decided to pull most of America’s Special Operations Forces and Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary operatives off the hunt for Osama bin Laden so they could be reconstituted for war in Iraq. Over the years, the scope of America’s commitment in that country took Washington’s attention away from the ‘‘forgotten war’’ in Afghanistan. But by summer 2008, the situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated badly.

• Cato Handbook for Policymakers: U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan