Setelah kematian Bin Laden tidak ada alasan lagi buat Amerika buat terus berada di Afghanistan (yang dulu melindungi Bin Laden).. CNN.com
Obama to announce plan to pull 30,000 troops out of Afghanistan Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is expected to announce a plan that would result in the 30,000 U.S. "surge" forces being withdrawn completely from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, an administration official told CNN. The president is expected to give a speech Wednesday on the Afghanistan troop drawdown. The time frame would give commanders another two "fighting" seasons with the bulk of U.S. forces still available for combat operations. An estimated 100,000 U.S. troops are serving in Afghanistan, some 30,000 of which are part of the so-called surge ordered in 2009 in a bid to control the rising violence. Defense chief grappling with 'wars of choice' Obama is mulling how many troops should be withdrawn this summer and by the end of the year. He is expected to discuss preserving flexibility in force levels on the ground so commanders can adjust as conditions warrant, the official said. The drawdown will be accomplished by troops returning home and not being replaced as well as canceling some proposed deployments. Talking to the Taliban White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Monday that Obama had yet to make a final decision on the size and scope of the troop withdrawal but would do so soon. "The president is still in a process of finalizing his decision on the pace and scope of the drawdown that will begin in July of 2011," Carney said . "He's finalizing his decision. He's reviewing the options and the assessments and will have an announcement to make soon." Obama has said troops would begin coming home in July, and he recently indicated the number would be significant. The president has repeatedly said he is confident the United States can meet the self-imposed deadline to begin bringing U.S. troops back from Afghanistan without compromising Afghan security, though military commanders and government officials have raised concern about the readiness of Afghan security forces. "We have made great strides toward achieving the objectives laid out in the mission that the president articulated in December of 2009," Carney said. "And he will make his decision based on the need to succeed further in achieving those objectives and to transfer authority gradually, security authority, over to the Afghan national security forces, with an eye to the fact that, as agreed to by NATO in Lisbon, we will eventually transfer full security lead over to the ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) in 2014." Attacks by Afghan troops on NATO soldiers rising, but motives complex Nearly three-quarters of Americans polled this month said they support the United States pulling some or all of its forces from Afghanistan. CNN poll: Support jumps for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan That figure jumped 10 percentage points since May, likely as a result of the death of Osama bin Laden, pollsters said. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted June 3 through 7, with 1,015 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report. Links referenced within this article Defense chief grappling with 'wars of choice' http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/19/gates-grapples-with-wars-of-choice/?iref=allsearch Talking to the Taliban http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/20/us.taliban.talks/index.html Attacks by Afghan troops on NATO soldiers rising, but motives complex http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/15/afghanistan.nato.attacks/index.html CNN poll: Support jumps for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/09/cnn-poll-support-jumps-for-withdrawing-troops-from-afghanistan/?iref=allsearch Find this article at: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/21/obama.afghanistan.troops/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Click Here to Print SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Uncheck the box to remove the list of links referenced in the article. © 2008 Cable News Network. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
