Vice President Biden: Pullout in Afghanistan may start small

the big theory dvd Vice President Biden said Sunday that progress in Afghanistan has been "a tough slog," but he said U.S. troops will begin leaving in July 2011.
"It could be as few as a couple thousand troops. It could be more. But there will be a transition," Biden said. The interview was taped late last week but broadcast Sunday.
Speaking on ABC's This Week, Biden said U.S. and NATO forces will be able to turn over some of the 34 military districts in Afghanistan to locally trained forces as planned, but he acknowledged the training of Afghan troops hasn't gone smoothly.
"We are in the process, which is painfully slow and difficult, of training up Afghani forces in order to put them in a position they can deal with their own insurgents," he said. "There is, for the first time now, a real attempt and a policy of trying to figure out how to reconcile those in the Taliban who are doing it for the pay, who are not the Mullah Omars of the world, into the government of Afghanistan." the big bang theory dvd box set