• We will con­tinue to advise and assist Afghanistan’s secu­rity forces to ensure that they can suc­ceed over the long haul. But it will be clear to the Afghan gov­ern­ment – and, more impor­tantly, to the Afghan peo­ple – that they will ulti­mately be respon­si­ble for their own country.
• Pres­i­dent Barack Obama • On his choice to add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, but begin to pull them out by July of 2011. Will 20 months be enough to move to the next step? We’ll find out. Obama’s plan, BTW, is in that mushy area where lib­er­als don’t like it, but nei­ther do con­ser­v­a­tives. But it’s not burn­ing fury, either. So he’s doing OK. source

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