Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
It is not true that all U.S. troops will be removed from Afghanistan by 2015. President Obama stated that 10,000 troops will be returned home and 23,000 troops are to follow them by the end of summer 2012. The President is intending to change our mission in Afghanistan and switch from combat to support. By 2014, hopefully the people in Afghanistan will depend on themselves for safety. It is not known how long support troops will remain in Afghanistan or how long the war will last. Therefore, only about half of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be returning to the United States. Troops remaining as support troops are supposedly quitting the combat, but this is not necessarily true, either. And because no one knows how long the war will last, the Taliban spokesmen refuse to negotiate peace.
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