12/12/2023
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"President Obama has promised to weigh the recommendations of the top commander in Afghanistan--GEN Stanley McChrystal--on whether to commit more troops to this effort."
"I am concerned because, at the very moment when our troops and our allies' troops are sacrificing more and more, our plan, our path, our progress seem to be growing less and less clear."
"The future course of our mission in Afghanistan has become one of the most important and one of the most difficult questions that we face."
"We must not allow our efforts in Afghanistan to be undermined by a lack of commitment."