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Now that President Obama has decided to end the surge in Afghanistan by late next year, and to bring the troops home by 2014, a clear vision about the American military presence in the region has begun to emerge. Yet paradoxically, the most stunning success of our operations in the region â€" the killing of Osama bin Laden â€" has exposed an even more serious potential menace: the insecurity of Pakistan’s nuclear program.

This insecurity, starkly illustrated by this morning’s Washington Post expose on A.Q. Khan’s transfer of nuclear technology to North Korea in the late 1990s, makes it essential for the United States to have an effective strategy for pulling our troops out of Afghanistan that simultaneously prevents an increase nuclear insecurity in South and Central Asia.

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