Afghan defense minister hopes US stays after 2014

Many Afghans felt abandoned by the U.S. after 1989. U.S. support to mujahedeen fighters who had battled the Soviets dried up a few years later and Afghanistan then sank into civil war. That was followed by the rise of the Taliban and the Sept. 11 attacks by al-Qaida, which was using Afghanistan as a sanctuary. - Afghan defense minister hopes US stays after 2014 - Yahoo! News