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July 28, 2010

Obama's Detrimental Afghan Deadline

Trudy Rubin, China Post

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U.S. President Barack Obama is caught on the horns of an Afghan deadline dilemma. In December at West Point, the president pledged that “after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.” He never spelled out the pace at which they'd leave, and he talked of a “responsible transition.” But Afghans took him to mean we were heading for the exits.

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