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Pres. Obama Announces Pact to End War in Afghanistan

by: William Tucker

Tue May 01, 2012 at 20:58:57 PM EDT


Tonight in Afghanistan, President Obama announced an agreement with President Hamid Karzai marking the beginning of the end of the Afghanistan war. 23,000 U.S. troops will depart Afghanistan by the end of this summer with reductions continuing at a steady pace. Next year, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan will shift to a support role as Afghans forces take the lead for combat operations across the country. By the end of 2014, the President promised, the Afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country.

My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. The Iraq War is over. The number of our troops in harm's way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home soon. We have a clear path to fulfill our mission in Afghanistan, while delivering justice to al Qaeda.

....

As we emerge from a decade of conflict abroad and economic crisis at home, it is time to renew America. An America where our children live free from fear, and have the skills to claim their dreams. A united America of grit and resilience, where sunlight glistens off soaring new towers in downtown Manhattan, and we build our future as one people, as one nation.

William Tucker :: Pres. Obama Announces Pact to End War in Afghanistan
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Another Promise Made... (4.00 / 1)
...and another promise kept by President Barack Obama.  

With another 15 American soldiers killed last week, most of them under age 25, it should be sooner, but the previous Republican Administration got us so involved in Afghanistan it takes a while to have an orderly withdrawal.  

Iraq:  Out.  Afghanistan:  Withdrawing.  World's top terrorist leader:  Gone forever.  World's worst terrorist group:  Greatly diminished.  And much better international relations on this rather small planet called "Earth."  You gotta rate the Obama Presidency A+ in foreign policy and national security.  

[I'm a former has-been House member and State Senator, but I keep "Rep." on my ID name for easy reference of previous posts.]


And now we point out (4.00 / 3)
that Mitt Romney has no foreign policy experience and doesn't have a clue about it, as he invariably shows us when he opens his mouth on the subject.  

[ Parent ]
oh but he has plenty of foreign policy experience (4.00 / 1)
As CEO of Bain, Romney moved hundred of thousands of American jobs overseas.  I would call that foreign policy experience.


sitting state rep: running for re-election in 2012.


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"...the skills to claim their dreams..." (0.00 / 0)
One of the best lines I've heard from him EVAH!

The entire last paragraph shows a vision that connects 2008 to 2012 and re-connects us to the theme of One America, again.  Brilliant!  Powerful.

The crass and opportunistic robot is incapable of such insight or wisdom.

 "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,"  unattributed aphorism





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