President Barack Obama's adviser for national security, said the United States would not withdraw all its military forces from Afghanistan in 2011, a timetable requires the President to withdraw from the country "with ramps" and "not rock.""We are here to ensure that Afghanistan succeed. We do not want this any more than the Afghans do," retired Gen. James Jones, said the State "on the European CNN." "We will be in the area for a long time,"
Obama last week announced that it required at least 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan - a plan to withdraw started in July 2011 - in an effort to change the gains of the Taliban and helping to build the government in Kabul.
Republicans many statement that criticized the timetable on the arbitrary, and said it could potentially benefit the American enemies, giving them an indication of how long they would last before the American troops on left.
General Jones, to respond to the criticism, saying the planned ramps-up of forces in Afghanistan will be "very, very positive impact on any momentum the Taliban claim to have."
Not "rock 2011, it has ramps," he said. "It is ... we will be able to see progress in a much more visible and to be able to make a change."
Gen Jones did not, specify how long a withdrawal may last.
The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said: "We are not talking about exit strategy or drop-dead deadline," What we are talking about is that we assessed .. May. initiated transfer, the transfer of responsibility to hand out on the Afghan forces. "
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who spoke on "this week," said he was not thinking of the President of Afghanistan notice "exit strategy" but "the transfer".
He said the President was not coincidental time, but based on what "I believe our military leaders will give us time to realize that our strategy is working."
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