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Time to go after al qaeda. let's listen to what he had to say. >> now is the moment following what happened with bin laden to put maximum pressure on them. because i do believe that if we continue this effort, that we can really cripple al qaeda. >> reporter: al qaeda aside, this is afghanistan. he's on his first trip as secretary of defense. the big problem here is actually the taliban and the growing insurgency within the country. he was able to meet in kabul with afghan officials. hamid karzai as well as military commanders here on the ground to assess the situation that they're in right no...

I'm jon scott, fox news watch is right now. >> we won't try to make afghanistan a perfect place, we will not police its streets or patrol its mountains indefinitely. that is the responsibility of the afghan government, which must step up its ability to protect its people and move from an economy shaped by a war so it can sustain a lasting peace. >> jon: mr. obama's prime time address to the nation wednesday night announcing his plans for u.s. military involvement in afghanistan. and the headline being the withdrawal of 33,000 of our troops by the end of next summer. so the drawdown plan got mi...