pulling out the german for example does does not exclude to send more combat troops into afghanistan faucheux told period of time to secure this pull out and the americans will be the very last soldiers to leave because they have the heavy weapons to build t. to secure this pullout they would be the people who shut the door actually in september let's talk a little bit more about where the nato alliance terence stands in all of this move because of course you know the the the agreement to pull troops out between the taliban and the united states was a bilateral one that was made last year nato secretary general said back in february that nato troops would not leave afghanistan before quote the time is right what do nato members make of this. but the german foreign minister who was in brussels yesterday said all 30 allies and then ministry agreed to pull out politically but you also can hear that some of us was a little bit surprised about the reasoning now that there is no condition attached anymore to the pullout so the troops would leave no matter what in march they nato said we will only l