What's the exit strategy for this rather sizeable NATO force...

...in a relatively small, overwhelmingly Muslim, country? Perhaps the lack of combat and casualities permits the mission to drag on and on (note the almost absurdly optimistic spin in the headline, links in original):

Despite its troubles, Kosovo offers model for nation-builders
In newest country, improvements come slowly but steadily

PRISTINA, KOSOVO -- Nearly two years after the newest country in the world declared independence, outside powers are still firmly in control.

About 14,000 NATO troops are on hand to keep the peace, a decade after their arrival to protect Kosovars from annihilation by next-door Serbia. With just 2 million people in Kosovo, that's more than twice as many foreign soldiers, per capita, as are currently deployed in the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan.

The economy is a basket case, with a 45 percent unemployment rate. Most people are dependent on foreign largess. Kosovo even lacks an international dialing code. Landlines are all cursed with refuses to recognize Kosovo's independence. Cellphone numbers are borrowed from Monaco or a Balkan neighbor, Slovenia.

And yet, in spite of its problems and growing pains, Kosovo is cited by many diplomats as a credible model of nation-building, a sign -- relevant to the current debate over Afghanistan -- that a determined effort by foreigners can help to build a country from the ashes...

Few people in Kosovo are predicting an easy road ahead. In interviews, foreign diplomats, government officials and ordinary Kosovars agreed that it will take years, if not decades, for Kosovo to stand on its own. Even now, a Dutchman holds nearly absolute power to block decisions made by the fledgling Kosovo government. A separate 3,000-member security force sent by the European Union holds sway over police and the courts. In the meantime, many Kosovars believe the U.S. Embassy dictates their country's affairs from behind closed doors...

Kosovars acknowledged their shortcomings and said they had to become more self-reliant. But more and more, they are pointing fingers back at their international overlords, accusing them of refusing to relinquish power.

"With a ruling international bureaucracy, there is no democracy," said Albin Kurti, founder of a grass-roots movement called Self-Determination, which has led protests against the international missions in Kosovo. "If Europe really wanted to develop us, they would bring economic development, not soldiers."..

The CF took part in early NATO operations, bombing with CF-18 Hornets (something the current government is unwilling to allow in Afstan, the French have no such delicate sensibilities) and sending a significant ground force, eventually with tanks.

More on Kosovo at Daimnation!, and more at this post on another international military mission without that exit strategy. Any clamour for that strategy regarding either country is strikingly absent.