Flournoy says the withdrawal date is not arbitrary and Mr.Obama did not, as she put it,pull the timeline "out of a hat."

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

You can really decide if you want to commit to it and work on it more or put it on a shelf for a later date.

你就可以决定,你是否想落实它,更多地为它努力或是暂时搁置它，以后再落实。

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This is an iconography of belief,and you can see the dates because they'll put the date,like 1868.

这是对信仰的图解,你可以看到日期,他们会标上日期,比如1868年

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But should President Obama president have put down to let 2011 the date as the date of the begining of the withdrawl of American presence?

奥巴马总统是不是应该确定,2011年开始撤出美国势力？

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