Yes. And I -- you know, Joe Biden has publicly said that the drawdown in July 2011 could consist of as few as 2,000 soldiers, and sadly, all the folks I spoke to in Afghanistan on the U.S. side, the Afghan side, you know, anticipate a pretty large scale continuous presence of the United States until December of 2014.
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Peter Bergen discusses Biden's comments on troop drawdown and the anticipated continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
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