So, President Obama has ordered complete pull out of US troops from Afghanistan by 2014 against the advice of the military. Ten thousand will return this year and another 23000 next year. Elections are to be held next November so troops coming home to flag waving and bands playing will be welcome publicity. The US abandoned Afghanistan once before after the withdrawal of Soviet forces with disastrous results so there is no reason to think that this time will be any different. Now that they know the date the Taliban will get themselves ready to take over as soon as the last NATO soldier has left. Pakistan is also waiting to get rid of Karzai and install a government which they hope will be friendly to them. Of course, US and European economies being in danger of recession the cost of the war is becoming to great to bear. Unfortunately for Obama the death of Osama bin Laden came much too early. People will have forgotten it by this time next year and it will be the economy which will decide who wins provided the Republicans can come up with a candidate worth voting for. Politicians make decisions just to win the next election without regard for the future. That is why the world seems more unstable everyday. Meanwhile the present Prime Minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva has warned voters not to vote for the opposition because that would mean voting for Thaksin Sinawatra, who was deposed in a coup. The charge against Thaksin is that he was corrupt which, in Thailand, seems to be a bigger crime than the mass murder of Red Shirt protesters by the army on Abhisit's orders. Not just our lot, politicians seem to be devious the world over.