Roland Burris: “I think it will make it harder, yes, sir.”

So you could then withdraw one battalion or a squadron can go home and say, 'well, now we've started our withdrawal,' and then we halt it to see because we don't know what the conditions are?

Have our personnel received adequate training?

But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?

In July 2011 we believe--I am comfortable it is his intent we start to reduce the overall number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.