Is An Afghanistan Pullout Flexible In 2011?

Afghanistan Pullout VERY Flexible -- DoD Buzz

Those who worry that President Obama’s Afghan withdrawal date sets a dangerous benchmark may be reassured by predictions that the US is likely to have 90,000 troops still in country at the end of 2011 and around 70,000 by the end of 2012.

Those predictions are courtesy of Michael O’Hanlon, one of the best analysts of military operations around. O’Hanlon, who works for the Brookings Institution, was speaking at a Friday breakfast forum put together by the Institute for the Study of War, a fairly new Washington thinktank that fought hard for an Afghan surge.

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My Comment: The key sentence in this story is the first one ....

.... the US is likely to have 90,000 troops still in country at the end of 2011 and around 70,000 by the end of 2012.

If true .... so much for pulling out of Afghanistan.