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And this, clearly, if they get this agreement signed in the afghanistan case, they hope it will solve that problem and that they can keep some troops. perhaps the bigger picture to look at, at the same type, as you've pointed out, wolf, what difference will it make? in iraq, u.s. troops left and the country has fallen into a good deal of violence in iraq. if afghanistan, if you have 10,000 u.s. troops stay for maybe the next two years, what happens after that? are the taliban just going to wait for everybody to go? it's going to be a real question whether afghan military forces can maintain se...

U.s. strotroops, backed up by a thousand nato forces, there will still be a very dangerous environment there. the combat mission may be other, but these u.s. troops will be in a combat zone, presumably very endangered at the same time, barbara. >> absolutely, wolf. nobody thinks peace is coming to afghanistan any time soon. when you have 10,000 troops there. plus, as you just pointed out, a few thousand additional nato troops. one of the big jobs is how to keep them safe. so some number of those troops are going to be devoted simply to security. the forces will be on just a couple of bases in ...

Clinton's memoir. we're going to hear some of her thoughts on president obama, on marriage and on the times in her life where she's, quote, followed her heart. hello, i'm whoolf blitzer reporting from washington. we start with president obama ready to set troop levels for afghanistan. the president was in the country over the weekend, talking with american troops. today, in just over 90 minutes or so, he'll announce a major step. joining us from the pentagon is our correspondent barbara starr, from the white house, our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, to you first. are you g...

Themselves. 11500. 11740. you see the pattern. this, as you went through time, was all getting greater, until you have this final tiny little burst at the end, which is much bigger. that is what convinced them that this plane was steadily moving away from the satellite. so the satellite's somewhere over in here. and with every one of those bursts, they knew that it was moving further along these rings out here. now, how did they know that it was headed this way, which is what they believe in, instead of up this way or out this way? because you could make the times work elsewhere. that's when y...

Their job will be to train, assist, advise afghan forces. you'll recall, in the final months of iraq, u.s. forces went out less and less. they stayed in their bases. stayed inside the wire, so to speak, in an increasing amount. and at the end simply packed up and went. this proposal may begin to follow some of those lines. some of that precedent. here at the pentagon, no one is really surprised by what's been laid out. this is the option that u.s. military commanders tell us they wanted. wolf. >> barbara, just to be precise, the reason the u.s., the administration says the reason the u.s. troo...