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The U.S. Still Has Leverage In Afghanistan. Here’s How to Keep It POLITICO 3 hrs ago By Annie Pforzheimer © AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi President Joe Biden last month formally announced plans to end America’s military presence in Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. In November 2009, with President Obama only weeks away from announcing a surge of about 30,000 troops in Afghanistan and a drawdown of U.S. forces starting in July 2014, a team of concerned diplomats in Kabul cabled Washington with a classified warning. I was one of those concerned diplomats, as the Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan. Both the surge and the deadline announcement worried us. We told the President and his top advisors that our local partners weren’t yet strong or reliable enough for a surge to work, and that announcing a clear withdrawal date would be a major incentive to the Taliban

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