NATO supports a gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan

LISBON (Reuters) - is expected to support the NATO leaders at a summit to begin on Friday plans to withdraw the majority of foreign troops from Afghanistan within four years and in spite of the Afghan forces that may not be ready when that to defend her country.

And announce the leaders of NATO exit strategy from a war many see as not going well for the United States and its allies, but they also agree on a new vision statement for a period of ten years emphasizes the need for the alliance to be ready for similar tasks in the future.

True leaders of the alliance and officially numbering 28 during the two-day summit in Lisbon on a timetable to begin handing over responsibility for security to Afghan forces next year so that Afghans take full responsibility in all parts of the country by the year 2014.

NATO would like to move to the role of training and supportive over the next four years, but Mark Sdwyl largest civilian representative of NATO in Afghanistan said this week that the poor state of security in some areas may defer the date in 2014.

He added that Afghanistan could see the "levels of violence, break the heart by Western standards" after 2014 despite the optimistic assessments of NATO combat operations against the rebels since the large increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan last year.

And British Prime Minister David Cameron, who suffered more losses in his country of Afghanistan that British troops should be withdrawn by 2015.

Cameron said before a parliamentary committee: "I think that the British people deserve to know that there is an end to all this is 2015 and this is clear." He added that British troops will be by the year 2015 "has made a huge contribution and sacrifices are enormous."

The United States led the war in Afghanistan after the attacks of September 11, 2001 after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda leader. Now that the war entered its tenth year war has become almost a political problem for President Barack Obama.

And failed war costing billions of dollars a week to prevent that extends the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan as foreign troops arrived in losses to record levels.