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Very early on was that it was in our national security interest to have a stable, sovereign afghanistan that was a responsible international actor that was in partnership with us and that that required afghanistan to have its own security capacity and to be on a path that was more likely to achieve prosperity and peace for its own people. and i think president karzai would be the first to acknowledge that afghanistan still has work to do to accomplish those goals, but there's no doubt that the possibility of peace and prosperity in afghanistan today is higher than before we went in. and that i...

Review and we'll make an assessment. is the strategy working? is it working in part or are there other aspects of it that aren't working? how's the coordination between civilian and military? are we doing enough to build afghan security capacity? how are we working effectively with our allies? so we are in the midpoint of implementing the strategy that we came up with last year. we'll do a review at the end of this year. general petraeus understands that strategy, because he helped shape it. and my expectation is that he will be outstanding in implementing it, and we will not miss a beat becau...

Isn't working? are we doing enough to build afghan security capacity, how are we working effectively with our allies? so we are in the midpoint of implementing the strategy that we came up with last year, we'll do a review at the end of this year. general petraeus understands that strategy because he helped shape it and my expectation is that he will be outstanding in implementing it and we will not miss a beat because of the change in command in the afghan theater. keep in mind that during this entire time, general petreaus has been the cent com commander which means he's had responsibility i...

The persian gulf region. the white house correspondent says it is a message directed at iran. >> good evening, mike. >> the approach has multiple goals, to deter iranians and calm the israelis. officials say the united states now has cruisers pauling -- patrolling the gulf at all times that can intercept medium-range weapons. pentagon officials confirm there is an accelerated deployment of defensive weapons, patriot missiles, and they would be operated by american troops. it is believed the patriot missiles can shoot down short-range missiles that the iranians could launch and other countries ...

Little bit later on today. this is, of course, a significant shift in policy for president obama. he had said he was going to draw down will all of the troops from afghanistan by the end of 2016 and now as you just said, it was announced last night that he will be leaving a presence there of about 5500 troops. initially it was only going to be agembassy presence. about a thousand troops there really focused on the security capacity. now they're going to be bases in bagram, jalalabad and also canada ha, a significant increase in the u.s. presence there coming against the backdrop of the surge o...