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President Barack Obama plans to draw down US troop deployments in Iraq in order to make it easier to send troop reinforcements to Afghanistan. CBS' Elizabeth Palmer was in Afghanistan to show us the final highway checkpoint on the outskirts of Kabul beyond which Taliban guerrillas operate freely and travel is unsafe. A deployment of 3,000 GIs from the Tenth Mountain Division is freshly arrived to try to secure those outskirts. ABC's Martha Raddatz (embargoed link) meanwhile had just returned from the port of Kuwait City, through which tons of military materiel will have to pass as troops depart from Iraq. "A huge logistics challenge," she called it, especially as the southward route through Iraq to Kuwait "is still an active war zone, a potential choke point that could mean major delays." Raddatz reported that Gen Ray Odierno has drawn up scenarios for the slowest and the quickest pullout--completed either by December 2011 or by June 2010.
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