Any draw-down of American forces at this time will surely encourage such adverse reassessments.
The departure of the British from Iraq, and America's likely draw-down there, might eventually release more forces for Afghanistan.
Mr Rasmussen said the closure had so far not had a major impact on Nato operations but would constitute a logistical challenge when the draw-down of troops began.
Analysts suspect that as troops draw-down from combat zones overseas, more veteran soldiers many of whom have been deploying consistently since the dawn of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are struggling to reintegrate into civilian life.
Even the Bush administration has reportedly begun contingency planning to start a draw-down this fall irrespective of the circumstances on the ground in response to an expected domestic political imperative demanding what is euphemistically called a "new strategy" come September.
Mr. WONG: In Washington we're seeing a debate about troop draw-down levels for the Americans and how quickly to hand over security and whether even to increase the level of American troops here by, say, as much as 20, 000 over the short term.
But we will draw them in a -- draw them down in a responsible way that will allow Afghanistan to defend itself and will give us the operational capacity to continue to put pressure on al Qaeda until that network is entirely defeated.
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Hopefully -- just to give an example -- when Spain clarifies exactly how it intends to draw down and utilize dollars -- or not dollars, but euros to recapitalize its banking system, given that it's already got support from other European countries, given that the resources are available, what's missing right now is just a sense of specifics and the path whereby that takes place.
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As they do, our troops -- American and Australian -- will draw down responsibly together so that we preserve the progress that we've made, and by 2014, Afghans will take full responsibility for security in their country.
And it is also the case, broadly speaking, that our ability to end the war in -- to draw down and now end the war in Iraq responsibly has allowed us to focus the way we have on the AfPak region, on the fight against al Qaeda.
The reason for this is that Greece has struggled to come up with the co-financing to draw down the funds.
Manchester City comes very close to losing at the Etihad Stadium for the first time in 15 months but fight back from 3-1 down with only minutes left to draw 3-3 with Sunderland.
But, although Saints came back from 16-0 down to draw with Wigan at the Millennium Stadium, this time the deficit was just too large to make up.
And, of the four draws they enjoyed, as well as a 2-1 win over Watford, one of them was an heroic effort at home to promotion-chasing Cardiff City, when they came from four goals down at half-time to draw 4-4.
However, Birmingham have recent precedent on which to draw inspiration during such predicaments, having come back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw with Everton last Saturday and their response here was equally positive.
Relegation-threatened Sporting Gijon went down 2-0 at Getafe while Espanyol came back from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw against Real Sociedad.
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The President, as you know, has begun -- as he made clear he would do when he laid out his policy for Afghanistan -- he has begun to draw down forces there, the surge forces, in Afghanistan, and in a process that will, by the end of 2014, result in Afghan forces taking security lead in that country.
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In the past several years the number of US forces has decreased (37, 000-29, 000), this draw down will continue over the next three years.
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They can sniff out dozens of explosives, and even as troops draw down there, many in the military-dog world expect the canine teams to deploy steadily to the end of U.S. involvement.
We'll have 10, 000 that had drawn down during the course of 2011, and then another 23, 000 that we'll draw down by the end of the summer -- next year sometime -- in September, and headed towards a more sustainable long-term relationship there.
The President made very clear when he announced his strategy in Afghanistan in December of 2009 what the objectives were, what they were not, and his timeframe for surging troops and beginning to draw down troops, and the benchmarks for -- that needed to be met as we transferred security lead over to the Afghans bit by bit.
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