U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday to begin pulling out U.S. troops from Afghanistan in next July

While U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday to begin pulling out U.S. troops from Afghanistan in next July, the war-weary Afghans have shown mixed reaction towards the decision.

"The decision will not change the course of the war and will not convince the Taliban to give up fighting. In the presence of the U.S. and allied forces, we have suffered, and would continue to suffer in their absence," taxi driver Mohammad Musa in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, told Xinhua on Thursday morning.

He also doubted U.S. war on Taliban and troops drawing down, saying "The United States can withdraw a few hundred soldiers this morning and it can bring a few thousand tomorrow night if it likes to do so."

A student of Kabul University Mohammad Khan said that "the U.S. forces withdrawal from Afghanistan would bolster Taliban morale in fighting NATO-led forces in Afghanistan."

"Taliban-led insurgency like the past few years would continue in the years to come and it makes no difference how many foreign soldiers withdraw or how many are deployed, because it is a major game and the U.S. is a major stockholder in the game," Khan believed.

President Obama announced on Thursday that 10,000 U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of this year and another 23,000 will go home by September 2012.

"Pulling out troops is a positive sign that at least the night raids by foreign forces and harming civilians will be decreased in Afghanistan," Bashir Khan, a passerby in Kabul city, told Xinhua.

"It is for the Afghan government to ensure security for its citizens and above all it is for the international partners of Afghanistan to support Afghan national security forces in order to enable them to independently defend the country's interest," the 38-years old said.

"The forces of America and other countries should leave Afghanistan, but before leaving they should give more equipment and enough training to Afghan security forces at the level to defend the country's boundaries," said a roadside vender Mohammad Azam aged 26.

He also was of the view that "American forces withdrawal would decrease sensitivity towards foreign troops based in Afghanistan."

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Obama lays out Afghanistan troops drawdown

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday night laid out his plans for Afghanistan troops drawdown that is set to begin next Month, ordering 10,000 troops from that country by year-end with a total of 33,000 troops to be out by next summer.

The plans would withdraw all the "surge troops" he sent to Afghanistan in late 2009 to strengthen the fight against the Talibans.