RSSOfficials: 2011 Afghan pullout ‘not a cliff’
From: The Washington Times | December 6, 2009
White House and military officials on Sunday defended President Obama's announced July 2011 date for the beginning of a U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, saying that the schedule was not a hard-and-fast exit strategy. "It is not a cliff. It's a glide slope," said President Obama's National Security Adviser James L. Jones on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "Certainly, the president has also said that we're not leaving Afghanistan," he said. "We are here to make sure that Afghanistan succeeds." U.S. Central Command head Gen. David H. Petraeus said that the number of troops that will begin leaving Afghanistan ...
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