In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Marine Gen. John Allen made his most direct comments about whether he might advocate a freeze on troop withdrawals despite political pressures for a quicker exit. The pace of reducing American forces in Afghanistan looms as a partisan issue ahead of the election, although both Democrats and Republicans have endorsed an agreed-upon timeline under which the NATO mission in Afghanistan would come to a close at the end of 2014. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.