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Administration Debates Size of Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
President Obama's new security team is considering troop reductions in Afghanistan that might be larger than what departing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called for this weekend.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPresident Obama's new security team is considering troop reductions in Afghanistan that might be larger than what departing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called for this weekend. "It seems to me that between the successes that we've already enjoyed and the increased capacity of the Afghan forces, we are a in a position, based on conditions on the ground...to consider some modest draw-downs beginning in July." David Sanger is chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
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Katie Cooper
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David Sanger
Pulitzer Prize-winning White House and national security correspondent for the New York Times, author of “New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend The West”