01/26/2012
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"The President's 1 December speech reaffirmed the March 2009 core goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al Qaeda."
"President Obama's strategy--as laid out in his West Point address on December 1, 2009--focuses on our core goal, which is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and to prevent its capacity to thre..."
"the Taliban has maintained common cause with al Qaeda, as they both seek an overthrow of the Afghan Government."
"most Americans would not understand or accept that Federal employees should receive an average pay increase of 18.9 percent while many of their fellow citizens are facing employment cutbacks or unempl..."