终于明确从阿富汗撤军时间

奥巴正在发表讲话给裁军圆场。

President Obama will announce on Wednesday his much anticipated decision on drawing down troops in Afghanistan.

After the announcement Wednesday, the president will travel Thursday to Fort Drum, N.Y., home of the 10th Mountain Division, one of the first to deploy to Afghanistan. President Bush visited there less than a year after the war started.

Military sources tell ABC News' Martha Raddatz they hope the initial drawdown number is small, but that they do not know what the president's decision is yet.

Soon-to-be-retired Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, on his final tour of Afghanistan earlier this month, warned that it would be "premature" to make any significant changes to the military campaign in Afghanistan before the end of the year or until the United States can say that "we've turned the corner here in Afghanistan."

The White House, on the other hand, continues to argue that the cuts in the numbers of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be "real."

Even if the Pentagon and White House agree on the number, Gates' public dissent makes it difficult for the president to sell that number to his supporters, who are getting increasingly agitated over the growing cost of the war. Ted Aljibe, AFP/Getty Images

U.S. troops scans the horizon at a sentry point of Combat Outpost (COP) Sabari in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan on June 18, 2011.

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• 今年底前撤1万，明年再撤2.3万 -dummvogel- ♂ (54 bytes) () 06/22/2011 postreply 17:47:21

• 也有可能今年撤1万，明年加2万. 奥巴马刚上台也说撤军,后来却加派部队. -钱主非民主- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/22/2011 postreply 18:59:54

• 那是天真烂漫，不知家底 -dummvogel- ♂ (59 bytes) () 06/22/2011 postreply 19:22:49