AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN REVIEW - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, and Vice President Joe Biden listen as President Barack Obama speaks on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review, describing the situation as "a very difficult endeavor" but saying there has been "significant progress," at the White House, Dec. 16, 2010. White House photo by Pete SouzaAnalysis: Four More Years Of War In Afghanistan -- Peter Bergen, CNN
(CNN) -- The much-touted July 2011 date for the beginning of a withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan, a center piece of the administration's "AfPak" strategy announced by President Obama in December 2009, now seems unlikely to amount to much.
According to a senior U.S. administration official, there is presently "no judgment on the scale or pace of those reductions." Translation: Don't expect a significant drawdown of American forces in the summer of 2011.
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