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Expanding their ranks across afghanistan, president obama says the situation is still too dangerous to cut the size of u.s. forces still fighting in the country's longest war. >> the bottom line is in key areas of the country, the security situation is still very fragile. and in some places there is risk of deterioration. >> reporter: the administration had sought to end u.s. involvement in the 14-year war that began less than one month after the 9/11 attacks. the plan had been to cut dramatically the number of troops next year.9800 troops wi through most or all of 2016. dropping to