BBC–Robert Gates says US exit from Afghanistan on course

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the US will definitely start reducing the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan next July.

On Sunday, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, said that he might advise President Barack Obama to delay the exit plan.

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One comment on “BBC–Robert Gates says US exit from Afghanistan on course

  1. Billy says:

    We, again, are stupidly, for political reasons only, giving up our strategic plans to the enemy. All they have to do is stay in their caves until the time we have announced we shall leave, and they have survived and been victorious, literally and figuratively to the rest of the world. In the past, we didn’t even announce troop movements. Now is a General goes to the bathroom, it’s on cable news. What has happened to our common sense! Gone the way of political correctness???!!!!