Remarks in Richmond
10/21/2008
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The goal is to disrupt, dismantle and eventually defeat al Qaeda.
But the key here Anderson, is this is actually something that Obama does talk about in the speech.
I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is not lost. But for several years it has moved backwards.