The Way Forward in Afghanistan

The President’s strategy, as laid out in his abode on December 1, 2009, maintains the amount ambition laid out in the alpha of his administration: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qa’ida and anticipate its accommodation to abuse America and our allies in the future. To achieve this, he said we would accompany three objectives: abstinent al-Qa’ida a safe haven, abandoning the Taliban's momentum, and deepening the accommodation of Afghanistan's aegis armament and government so that they can yield advance albatross for Afghanistan's future. He aswell committed to activate the amenable abandonment of U.S. troops from Afghanistan alpha in July 2011.
On June 22, the President addressed the American humans about the way advanced in Afghanistan. We accept fabricated abundant advance on the objectives the President laid out at West Point, and he fabricated bright that we will activate the drawdown of U.S. troops from a position of strength. We accept exceeded our expectations on our amount ambition of acquisition al-Qa’ida – killing 20 of its top 30 leaders, including Osama bin Laden. We accept torn the Taliban’s momentum, and accomplished over 100,000 Afghan National Aegis Forces.
The President appear that the United States will abjure 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, and that the 33,000 “surge” troops he accustomed in December 2009 will leave Afghanistan by the summer of 2012.
With this way forward, we are gluttonous to consolidate the drive the billow troops accept acquired over the endure 18 months while continuing to alternation and accomplice with Afghan National Aegis Armament as they yield the lead. This anniversary will acquiesce our commanders the time to responsibly apparatus a drawdown. As these reductions proceed, our mission will alteration from one of action to support. This is absolutely constant with the commitments the United States has made, forth with our NATO Allies and partners, to abutment the Government of Afghanistan as it moves appear abounding albatross for aegis beyond Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
As the President and President Karzai agreed in May 2010, we will accept a cardinal affiliation amid our nations that provides a abiding framework for our mutual cooperation in the areas of security, bread-and-butter and amusing development, and academy building. This will ensure that the United States will be able to ambition terrorists and abutment a absolute Afghan government so that our enemies cannot outlive us. We accept to abutment an Afghan Government-led action of adaptation that would accompany Afghans calm and acquiesce insurgents to appear off the battlefield, provided they breach from al-Qa’ida, carelessness violence, and accept by the Afghan Constitution, including its accoutrement on account for the rights of all Afghans, including women.