Gee, that's a funny time. What's significant about that? Oh, yes, it's just before the presidential election season kicks into high gear for 2012.
Obama doesn't want to be known as a War President, since that's not going to fly with his liberal base. The 30,000 troops are about half of what his general requested -- which allows him to try to play both sides of the street: I prosecuted the war in Afghanistan (to the hawks), but only a little bit (to the doves).
That way, even if the war isn't done, or won, he can say he's started to bring the troops home -- always a popular move. Make no mistake, Obama wants to win: but an election, not a war.
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