Karzai: Obama's 2011 Pullout Timetable 'Boosting Enemy Morale' | Asia | English

Karzai: Obama's 2011 Pullout Timetable 'Boosting Enemy Morale' | Asia | English: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticized a plan by U.S. President Barack Obama to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan next July.

Mr. Karzai told a visiting U.S. congressional delegation Thursday that Mr. Obama's July 2011 deadline for the start of a troop pullout has given insurgents a 'morale boost.'

The chief of the U.S. Marine Corps, General James Conway, made a similar comment earlier this week, telling a news conference Mr. Obama's pullout date 'is probably giving our enemy sustenance,' as he put it. But, Conway also said Taliban militants in Afghanistan will be in for a surprise when they realize American troops will continue fighting them."