KABUL to less than 4,000 in the next couple of weeks.
“Very shortly, we’ll be down to less than 4,000 soldiers. And so we’ll be out of there, knowing that certain things have to happen,” the US leader told a news conference at the White House on Friday.
In a read-out of the news briefing, he made clear certain things had to be done before the planned drawdown. Without giving a specific date for lowering troop levels, he called 19 years . . .









