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Why? Look at the U.S. Department of State's most recent annual report on human rights around the world. Commentary Dutch troops end their mission in Afghanistan Digg This Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Dutch troops end their mission in Afghanistan Sun, Aug 1 2010 UPDATE 1-Obama: Goals in Afghanistan attainable, modest Sun, Aug 1 2010 Biden says no plans to nation-build in Afghanistan Thu, Jul 29 2010 Congress gives Obama long-delayed Afghan war funds Tue, Jul 27 2010 Q+A: What is happening in Afghanistan right now? Tue, Jul 27 2010 Related Topics World » Afghanistan » Related Video The fog of Afghanistan Sun, Aug 1 2010 Dutch troops leave Afghanistan By David Fox KABUL | Sun Aug 1, 2010 8:33pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) - The Netherlands began pulling its 2,000 troops out of Afghanistan on Sunday after a political row brought down the Dutch government in February and as other Western nations review their future roles in the war. While the withdrawal is unlikely to be felt on the battlefield, it hurts the "international" image that Washington promotes for the U.S.-dominated, 150,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The Dutch officially ended their mission without public ceremony or even any announcement from ISAF on Sunday. "The decision like this one ... must not be seen in an isolated way," Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz told a regular news conference. "The overall forces posture of ISAF and of the Afghan security forces as well is increasing, so we do have the necessary force posture," Blotz said. The Netherlands was the lead nation in the southern province of Uruzgan, where it had about 1,400 troops, plus around 500 at headquarters or elsewhere. During its mission, 24 Dutch troops were killed and 140 wounded, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. "The Netherlands has taken its responsibility, and put its shoulders under security and reconstruction in Afghanistan," Foreign Affairs minister Maxime Verhagen said in a personal message to the Dutch command in Uruzgan, the statement said. He said the Netherlands would maintain its diplomatic relations with Afghanistan and its financial support. Dutch newspapers, which put the cost of the four-year mission at over a billion euros, asked on Sunday if it was worth it -- with most judging it a partial or modest success. Facing growing public doubts about the war, U.S. leaders have sought to lower expectations of what can be achieved. "Nobody thinks that Afghanistan is going to be a model Jeffersonian democracy," President Barack Obama told CBS News in an interview aired on Sunday. "What we're looking to do is difficult but it's a fairly modest goal, which is: Don't allow terrorists to operate from this region. Don't allow them to create big training camps and to plan attacks on the U.S. homeland with impunity. That can be accomplished. Until the Dutch departure on Sunday, ISAF listed 46 nations as contributing to the force, but critics say its cohesion was compromised from the start by myriad separate rules of engagement that each country insisted its troops follow. The Dutch, who were partnered by a smaller force of Australians in the mountainous province, were one of few European nations to place few caveats on operations. PULLOUT A conference of Afghanistan's stakeholders last month agreed a 2014 target for President Hamid Karzai's government to take responsibility for security across the country, but many ISAF contributors plan to leave before then as their presence -- as in the Dutch case -- becomes a hot domestic political issue. The Dutch Labour party left the governing coalition in February because it did not want the mission to continue beyond August. A new government has still to be formed following parliamentary elections in June. The Dutch mission in Afghanistan started in 2006 and was scheduled to end in August. But NATO had urged the Netherlands, among the top 10 contributing nations to the mission, to consider the possibility of a longer stay. Canada will pull out its nearly 3,000-strong force next year, while 2011 is also when Obama wants to start a gradual withdrawal of around 100,000 troops, a figure swollen in the last six months by a surge that aims to take on the Taliban in their spiritual homeland of Kandahar. Germany, the third largest ISAF contributor with 4,400 soldiers in Afghanistan, also aims to start a pullout next year, handing over responsibility for security in at least one of the nine northern provinces it controls to local forces. The Taliban, who last week congratulated the Dutch ahead of their withdrawal, view pullouts or talk of timetables as a sign they are winning the war, and ISAF casualties have soared with record numbers of deaths in June and July. According to www.icasualties.org, an independent website that monitors foreign troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, some 1,979 service members have been killed since the war began after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. (Additional reporting by Jonathon Burch in Kabul and Catherine Hornby in Amsterdam; Editing by Rob Taylor and Jon Hemming) World Afghanistan Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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