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1. Introduce your person and explain why he/she has a credible opinion on the War in Afghanistan. Credit all factual information 2. Describe your person's perspective on the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan. Your answer should address following bullet points: •Why is he/she interested in Afghanistan? Is it personal, political, social, economic, religious, humanitarian, etc? •How was this person affected when the Taliban controlled Afghanistan •How has this person been affected by the United States presence in Afghanistan? •How would this person's life change if the United States left Afghanistan abruptly? 3. How would your person answer the question: When should the United States leave Afghanistan? ** Paragraph 1: ** Introduce your person and explain why he/she has a credible opinion on the War in Afghanistan.  Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith is the “Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,” (Arms Control Center). He had been involved with the United States government and with the United Nations. He was also U.S. Ambassador to Croatia. He was Afghanistan’s N0.2 official. He had accused the head of the mission of fraud that benefited the president, Hamid Karzai. Although denying it, it was later concerned and Galbraith was fired. **Paragraph 2:** Describe your person's perspective on the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan. This answer has 4 parts.  Peter Galbraith was involved with the issues with Afghanistan for both political and personal issues. “Mr. Galbraith had been a paid adviser to the Norwegian oil company DNO, and that he had acted as an mediator between DNO and the Kurdish government in talks that won the company a potentially lucrative contract to work those northern fields,” the New York Times stated October 7th, 2010. In an Interview with Galbraith and Robert Fisk by Reporter Kerr O’Brien in November 5, 2011 asked, “…do you think that bin Laden's death will make it any easier to reach some kind of binding peace agreement between the Karzai government and the Taliban that would allow America and the NATO forces to withdraw?” Galbraith responded saying no and that Afghanistan is, “…an indigenous Pashtun nationalist movement, the Taliban, and one that does not have any global aspirations in the way that Osama bin Laden did.” The U.S. is “second or third most corrupt in the world, that is notoriously ineffective, that is in office as a result of massively fraudulent elections, whose leader is a bit strange in his behaviour, and that's been the case for several years now, and the situation if anything has deteriorated… Corruption has become worse in Afghanistan… The billions that have been spent to build up a national police have been almost entirely wasted because while you can teach the recruits to be policemen, they haven't been very successful at that, but you can teach them policing skills, you can't teach them to be honest,” (Interview with Kerry O’Brien). There wouldn’t be much of a difference if the U.S. just left Afghanistan because the real issue is already there, and it wouldn’t really disappear any time soon.

** Paragraph 3: ** How would your person answer the question: When should the United States leave Afghanistan?  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14.4px;"> In the opinion of Galbraith, America can leave Afghanistan whenever, and it won’t make that big of a difference. Since he said, "The country, the Pashtuns are about half the population of the country. This is where the Taliban has almost all of its support," (Interview with Kerry O’Brien). In the Pashtun areas the Taliban control the countryside, and Galbraith believes that even if the NATO forces were to go, the situation would be exactly the same. He states that our presence of the NATO has no real effect on Afghanistan. He sees that even if we leave, no real change will occur because it's not like they'll capture the capital or the North. Therefore, we can leave when want, but if we don't it won't make a difference. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: left;">


 * // Sources: //**
 * // O'Brien, Kerry, Peter Galbraith, and Robert Fisk. "11/05/11:Interview //**
 * // Transcript." Four Corners. N.p., 5 Nov. 2011. Web. 8 Dec. 2011. //**
 * // <http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2011/s3214168.htm>. //**
 * // New York Tmes. "Peter W. Galbraith." New York Times. N.p., 7 Oct. 2010. Web. 8 //**
 * // Dec. 2011. <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/ //**
 * // people/g/peter_galbraith/index.html>. //**