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In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Obama asked for cooperation in a world vision. A global community to address climate change, nuclear arms proliferation and civil injustice.
But what Mr. Obama didn't address was the future of U-S involvement in Afghanistan. General Stanley McChrystal and top military officials have said they want more troops there, but the Obama administration is putting the brakes on their deployment to reassess the situation of a stalemate war effort.
One strategy would increase troop presence and isolate Taliban leaders to remote regions of the country. Another strategy would limit troops to major cities like Kandahar where political and economic influences are stronger and populations are larger.
President Obama is under pressure from Americans that are showing signs of war fatigue and his own promise of battling 9-11 perpetrators. He has to find a balance between the objectives and the fleeting trust of the Afghan people only adds to the urgency.
A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll shows that Americans are pessimistic about military efforts in Afghanistan; 59% say they are feeling less confident that the war will come to a successful conclusion. 51% say they would oppose sending more troops to the conflict.
President Obama is under political pressure from leading Republican voices such as former presidential rival Senator John McCain Sen. who says more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan-- insisting that the longer it takes to send them, "the more Americans will be put at risk."
President Obama also said it's premature to decide whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to join the 68-thousand who will be there by the end of the year. Fifty-one American troops died there in August--on of the bloodiest months for the U-S since the war began in October 2001.
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