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The United States should craft a flexible timetable for its withdrawal from Afghanistan even though President Barack Obama may be considering plans to ramp up US forces there, a US Senator urged Monday. It is time we ought to start discussing a flexible timetable, when people in America and Afghanistan and around the world can see where we intend and when we intend to bring our troops out, Democratic Senator Russell Feingold. Arent we sort of helping drive more extremists into Pakistan, by continuing to build up troops and resentment in Afghanistan. And of course Pakistan is where the witchs brew of every kind of nightmare comes together in a nuclear country and I think its not a very well thought strategy, he said. Feingold, who was the first US senator to call for a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, was speaking to a newspaper in his home state of Wisconsin amid a growing US debate about troop levels in Afghanistan. We have to be dead serious about security. We have to maintain the ability to go after Al-Qaeda within Afghanistan. It doesnt mean we give that up, he told the Appleton Post-Crescent. But simply continuing operations there -- and apparently there are going to be requests for many more troops Im not sure its a wise idea, said Feingold.
