Amy Goodman
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Juan Cole on Obama's Plan to Reduce US Military Presence in Afghanistan to Pre-Surge Levels
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June 22, 2011
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8:42Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - President Obama is expected to announce today a withdrawal of up to 10,000 U.S. troops by the end of the year. Under the plan, the United States would still have some 67,000 troops, plus thousands of contractors, in Afghanistan at the start of 2013—the same total as before last year's surge. "[Defense Secretary Robert] Gates said that he thought if the U.S. brings the hammer on the Taliban again and again through the next year, then maybe they may be able to force them to the negotiating table and in some sincerity some time over this next 12 months," says University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole, a longtime critic of the war, in a Democracy Now! interview. "But how likely is that, really?"
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