U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry deserves praise for his effort to salvage a bilateral security agreement that will allow international troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014, when combat operations led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are scheduled to end. After more than a dozen years, more than 20,000 Americans killed or injured, and more than half a trillion dollars spent, the U.S. should reject any agreement that doesn't unequivocally advance its one abiding security interest: to prevent the use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies.
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