• "I intend to finish the job", said President Obama, eight years after the September 11
attacks on the World Trade Centre, referring to America's national interest to "dismantle and
destroy" the Al-Qaida terrorist and extremist ally networks
 
• Announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan in early 2010 and the
withdrawal of all forces by late 2011, Obama is positive about finishing America's international
involvement in the eight-year Afghanistan war and subsequently hand over the fight to the Government
of Kabul
 
• Obama's new war-against-terror strategy fulfills three objectives: Deny Al Qaeda as a safe
haven, reverse the momentum of the Taliban and reinforce Afghanistan's security forces.
 
• "The Taliban has gained momentum and the Al Qaeda has retained their safe-havens along the
border," Obama said at the U.S. Military Academy. He thus stressed on the need to make Afghanistan
stable if US is to succeed in denying the Taliban's capabilities to overthrow the Afghan government
and uphold America's vision of world peace. 
 
• Urging the need to prevent the cancerous terrorist forces from spreading throughout
Afghanistan and creeping towards the borders of Pakistan, Obama said that his war strategy is
designed to work on both sides of the Afghan-Pak border
 
• At the same time he assures that the US will not turn its back to Afghanistan and shall
continue to maintain an American presence in the country to ensure that no terrorist attack ensues
from a vantage point on the soils of Afghanistan or Pakistan
 
• Obama clearly stated that "America has no interest in fighting an endless war in
Afghanistan."

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