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Conclude in afghanistan by the end of the year. and this new order could, in effect, reverse that. now, it is not a brand-new military campaign or specific offensive, but it just gives u.s. troops in afghanistan a little more authority and more room to do what they need to do in case they are threatened. it gives them the authority to carry out missions against the taliban and other groups that threaten them. but i want to play for you first what president obama said in the rose garden, in may, when he was announcing that the u.s. would wind down the troop presence and that combat would conclu...

Be fully responsible for securing their country. i've made it clear that we're open to cooperating with afghans on two narrow missions after 2014. training afghan forces and supporting counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al qaeda. the bottom line is it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. when i took office, we had nearly 180,000 troops in harm's way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. >> u.s. troops trickled in during the initial invasion after 9/11. but the fo...

On two narrow missions after 2014. training afghan forces and supporting counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al qaeda. the bottom line is, it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. when i took office, we had nearly 180,000 troops in harm's way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. >> u.s. troops trickled in during the nibble invasion after 9/11. but the footprint of american boots on the ground swelled to more than 100,000 by 2009. so by the start of 2015, fewer tha...

Be fully responsible for securing their country. i've made it clear that we're open to cooperating with afghans on two narrow missions after 2014. training afghan forces and supporting counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al qaeda. the bottom line is, it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy has been focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. when i look office, we had nearly 180,000 troops in harm's way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. >> u.s. troops trickled during the initial invasion after 9/11. but the...

People. second, i've made it clear that we're open to cooperating with afghans on two narrow missions after 2014. training afghan forces, and supporting counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al qaeda. today i want to be clear about how the united states is prepared to advance those missions. at the beginning of 2015, we will have approximately 98,000 u.s. -- let me start that over. just because i want to make sure we don't get this written wrong. at the beginning of 2015, we will have approximately 9,800 u.s. service members in different parts of the country. together with our na...