Obama's new Afghanistan plan: 5 predictions

President Obama will unveil his latest strategy for the unpopular war Wednesday night. How many troops will he pull out this year — and will anyone be satisfied?

U.S. Marines arrive home August 2010 after a seven-month deployment in Afghanistan: President Obama will announce Wednesday night how many more troops will follow.
(Image credit: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis)

A year and a half after he initiated the Afghanistan War "surge" of 30,000 troops, President Obama will reveal Wednesday night how many soldiers he is bringing home, and when. So without further ado, "it's time for one of Washington's favorite parlor games — predicting what the president will say before he says it," as Robert Zeliger says at Foreign Policy. Here, five predictions:

1. Obama will pull out 30,000 troops by December 2012

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