U.S. to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2011

Increased U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan will begin the process of withdrawing U.S. troops from that country in July 2011.

“Additional U.S. and international forces will allow us to accelerate the process of transferring responsibility to the Afghan authorities and to begin withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan in July 2011,” – said in a press-service segment of the White House coming in an hour speech the U.S. president Barack Obama.
As noted in the document, the United States sent to Afghanistan an additional 30 thousand troops in the first half of 2010.
“Just as we did in Iraq, we will transfer authority responsibly, taking into account the conditions on the ground. We will continue to help with advice and counseling services to Afghanistan’s security, to be sure that they can succeed in the long term. But Afghan government, and, more importantly, the Afghan people will be quite clear that they ultimately will be responsible for their own country “, – underlined in the text of the speech.
Obama’s Speech on the Afghan strategy have been described as one of the major speeches of his presidency. The decision to increase troops in Afghanistan has been given the U.S. president is not easy – he spent several months together with the ministers and advisers studied the report of the Force Commander of ISAF, General Stanley McChrystal, which said the deteriorating situation and the need to increase the number of troops to fight the Taliban