VOA标准英语2013--US Troop Reduction to Test Afghans
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(二月)
US Troop Reduction to Test Afghans
In his State of the Union address this week, the president put the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan into high gear ahead of next year’s withdrawal 1 deadline.
“This spring our forces will move into a support role while Afghan security forces take the lead. Tonight I can announce that, over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan,” said Obama.
This year’s fighting season begins shortly, and it will be the first time that Afghan national security forces - trained and assisted by the United States and its allies - will be at the forefront.
Chairman of the Joint 2 Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, who was in Afghanistan this week, said U.S. forces will be there as a backup.
“What you’ll see this summer is that the Afghan national security forces will be tested. We’ll be there with them, and that’s as much a physical support as it is a psychological support,” said Dempsey.
The troop reduction will be gradual, allowing a sufficient number of U.S. soldiers to be on hand to provide that support.
Officials say that satisfies concerns expressed by General John Allen, who has just handed over the command of allied 3 forces in Afghanistan to General Joseph Dunford.
Allen told reporters in Kabul this week his successor faces big challenges in completing the drawdown.
“He has to shrink the basing platform as he retrogrades war materiel that has accumulated for over 10 years, as he sends home a couple hundred thousand folks, leaving the coherence 4 of the campaign intact, which is moving the ANSF [Afghan National Security Forces], keeping them in the lead, supporting them as they take the fight to the enemy, doing all of that in same space and time with less than 23 months remaining. It is a daunting 5 task,” said Allen.
Most of the coalition 6 forces are to be out of Afghanistan by the end of next year. Analysts 7 say what happens in the country beyond that is a big question.
Ahmad Majidyar, of the American Enterprise Institute, said setting deadlines like the 2014 pullout date could be helping 8 the insurgents 9.
“The Taliban have a mantra that 'the coalition forces, they have the clock, but we have the time.' So their strategy right now is to just wait out the foreign troops, and, once the foreign troops are gone, then they will just try to come back with vengeance 10 and more power to regain 11 some of the territories they’ve lost,” said Majidyar.
The U.S. has yet to announce how many troops it may leave beyond 2014 to advise and assist the Afghans as they continue the fight against insurgents. That will be decided 12 in a bilateral 13 security agreement being negotiated now by the U.S. and the Afghan.
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- They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
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- Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。
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- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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