Afghanistan: Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan? Let Congress Vote! --- In mid-November, the Christian Science Monitor reports, a loya jirga in Afghanistan -- a national meeting of tribal leaders and other notable Afghans -- will vote on whether to meet the Obama administration's terms for keeping U.S. troops in the country beyond the end of 2014. -- If you care about democracy in Afghanistan, you should be happy for the Afghans. Whether or not -- and if so, under what conditions -- they want to have thousands of U.S. troops in their country after 2014 is obviously a very big deal for them. Why shouldn't they have full deliberation and debate? -- But if you also care about democracy in the United States, you should be a bit troubled. Because Congress has never approved keeping thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the end of 2014.