LONDON: The Afghan government would quickly be overthrow if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday.
"If international forces leave, you can choose a time - five minutes, 24 hours or seven days - but the insurgent forces will Overrun those forces that are prepared To put up resistance and we would be back to square one," he told the Guardian newspaper.
At the end of a visit to Kabul for the Inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, Miliband said Afghans were "sad that they need anyone, but they are passionate that my goodness they do, because if we were not here their country would be rolled over ".
"What we have to do is explain to people that the costs of staying are real but they are less than the costs of leaving," Miliband said.
Miliband said Western involvement in Afghanistan would need to continue until the transition to Afghan control was complete.
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