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The US is plan to completely withdraw from Afghanistan in 2017. Robert Gibbs, the spokesman of the White House, said so in to the media on Nov. 25. Gibbs said that the US president Barack Obama will give a lecture on Dec. 1 in West Point and declare the adjustment plan in Afghanistan. The US troops will not stay in Afghanistan for more than 8 years, said Gibbs to the media.
After months of deliberation, the new Afghan policy of Obama administration will be presented. It is estimated that Obama would deploy another 30000 soldiers there. New policy also includes the training of local security armies, which will take the responsibity after the withdrawl of the US troops.
Gibbs also said that Obama will probably publicize the detailed withdrawl timetable. "We are in year nine of our efforts in Afghanistan. We are not going to be there another eight or nine years," Gibbs told reporters. "Our time there will be limited and that is important for people to understand," he said.
The cost of more deployment of soldiers to Afghanistan is huge. The US government has to spend altogether US 1,000,000 per year for each additional soldier there. Now the government budget has reached USD1400 billion. For Obama, more deployment to Afghanistan is a political adventure. Gibbs said the
Gibbs said the financial cost of the conflict -- which reached $6.7 billion in June alone -- and the physical toll it had taken on the U.S. military made the war unsustainable in the long term.
"It is very, very, very expensive," Gibbs said
source:[News] The US can not afford the war in Afghanistan and plans to withdraw within eight years - Global Times Forum--Discuss China,Discuss the world--The Most Open and Objective Forum in China
After months of deliberation, the new Afghan policy of Obama administration will be presented. It is estimated that Obama would deploy another 30000 soldiers there. New policy also includes the training of local security armies, which will take the responsibity after the withdrawl of the US troops.
Gibbs also said that Obama will probably publicize the detailed withdrawl timetable. "We are in year nine of our efforts in Afghanistan. We are not going to be there another eight or nine years," Gibbs told reporters. "Our time there will be limited and that is important for people to understand," he said.
The cost of more deployment of soldiers to Afghanistan is huge. The US government has to spend altogether US 1,000,000 per year for each additional soldier there. Now the government budget has reached USD1400 billion. For Obama, more deployment to Afghanistan is a political adventure. Gibbs said the
Gibbs said the financial cost of the conflict -- which reached $6.7 billion in June alone -- and the physical toll it had taken on the U.S. military made the war unsustainable in the long term.
"It is very, very, very expensive," Gibbs said
source:[News] The US can not afford the war in Afghanistan and plans to withdraw within eight years - Global Times Forum--Discuss China,Discuss the world--The Most Open and Objective Forum in China
