The new French president, François Hollande, arrived in Kabul on Friday to meet with French troops stationed in the country and hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
This visit follows Hollande's announcement at the NATO conference in Chicago that French combat troops would withdraw from Afghanistan by the year end of the year.
As part of the the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, French trainers will remain in the country longer.
NATO countries are trying to figure out how to meet a 2014 deadline to withdraw from an unpopular war in Afghanistan while shoring up that nation's security forces.
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President Hollande is now a new and untested factor in the military and foreign affairs strategy of the western alliance. Not necessarily a push over.
With war with Iran looming and Afghan misadventure going all wrong its a factor we should be weighing carefully before taking a plunge off the cliff.