Encourages the Taliban to disappear for 18 months

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Afghanistan
Obama's Afghanistan Strategy
Plan to start troop withdrawal in July 2011
Encourages the Taliban to disappear for 18 months
Make it harder to engage the Taliban in a reconciliation process
Taliban will avoid engagement with US forces
Taliban will seek to test the strength of the Afghan army periodically
Contingent on conditions on the ground in Afghanistan
Gradual process of transition envisaged
Start transition of security responsibility to Afghans
Mission won't end until government can secure, defend and run country
Timetable too long to hold US public support
Timetable too short for the US to achieve its war aims
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