• 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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