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Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff held out the possibility of a draw-down of American forces from Afghanistan within a few years, citing the troop "surge" in Iraq as a model.
"If I were to use the surge in Iraq, in 2006-2007, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan as best we can tell," Mullen said at an interview in Washington.
"And we think that's reasonable in terms of having the impact and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back," he said, responding to a question about the future of the US force in Afghanistan. But Mullen added that "we have to be careful about the direct comparisons between Iraq and Afghanistan."
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