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    Obama Still to Decide on More US Troops to Afghanistan
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    He says because of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the terrorist group can not use it as a base to attack the U.S. The second is regional stability. "The question then becomes what are you willing to pay and expend for that regional stability or stability specifically in Afghanistan" Woodward stated, "If you look at it from that end it tends to take you away from giant troop commitments." Full Article at GlobalSecurity.org
    The question then becomes what are you willing to pay and expend for that regional stability or stability specifically in Afghanistan
    Bob Woodward – Bob Woodward SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org 1 month ago
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Obama Still to Decide on More US Troops to Afghanistan
  1. I think as Americans we sometimes forget the cost that the Afghans paid for the freedom of Eastern Europe, that after the Afghans defeated the Soviet Union that people around the world including Americans had more freedom and America's position in the world rose too, becoming the only super power
    SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org 1 month ago
  2. Obviously it was a sobering reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our young men and women in uniform are engaging in every single day. Not only our troops, but their families as well
    Barack Obama – Barack Obama SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org 1 month ago
  3. Eight years on, UNAMA has never issued a report that shows how aid money is being spent, where it is going and what the project structure is intended to be ... That is an incredible indictment of the level of management and capability there.
    SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org 1 month ago
  4. If you lose the country you have a power vacuum on the border of a nuclear-armed Pakistan, a state which in many ways has extraordinary internal divisions and weaknesses and problems of its own. You have the similar problems in Central Asian countries
    SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org 1 month ago
  5. If you look at it from that end it tends to take you away from giant troop commitments.
    Bob Woodward – Bob Woodward SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org 1 month ago

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