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Problem:In appealing to America’s allies, the president will portray the mission in Afghanistan as one necessary not just for the United States but for every nation that desires peace. 
  
 “Taken together, these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011,” Mr. Obama will tell the American people, according to the excerpts released by the White House. 
  
 “Just as we have done in Iraq , we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground,” the president says. “We will continue to advise and assist Afghanistan’s Security Forces to ensure that they can succeed over the long haul. But it will be clear to the Afghan government  and, more importantly, to the Afghan people  that they will ultimately be responsible for their own country.” 
  
 The strategy aims to prevent Al Qaeda from returning to Afghanistan, whose territory it used to prepare the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and to keep Taliban insurgents from toppling the government there. The 30,000 new American troops will focus on securing several population centers in Afghanistan where the Taliban are strongest, including Kandahar in the south and Khost in the east, the officials said. The American forces, they said, will pair up with specific Afghan units in an effort to end eight years of frustrating attempts to build them into an independent fighting force. 
  
 Mr. Obama has concluded that the strategy for dealing with the Taliban should be to “degrade its ability,” in the words of one official deeply involved in the discussions, so that the Afghan forces are capable of taking them on. At the same time the president’s strategy calls for “carving away at the bottom” of the Taliban’s force structure by reintegrating less committed members into tribes and offering them paid jobs in local and national military forces. 
  
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 “We want to knock the Taliban back, giving us time and space to build the Afghans up mainly in the security front but also in governance and development as well,” said one senior administration official. By weakening the Taliban through a quick infusion of troops, the official said, the administration hopes to make it a more manageable enemy for the Afghans to take on themselves. 
  
 Hours before the speech, Senator John McCain of Arizona expressed support for sending more troops to Afghanistan but said he opposed a timetable. “Dates for withdrawal are dictated by conditions,” Mr. McCain, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill. “The way that you win wars is to break the enemy’s will, not to announce dates that you are leaving.” 
  
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 Senator Harry Reid of Nevada , the Democratic majority leader, offered a more positive view after meeting with the president before his speech. “It is clear that the President’s deliberative approach to his decision, which allowed him to hear from a wide range of military, civilian and Congressional voices, will strengthen the clarity and focus of our mission,” Mr. Reid said. Before flying to West Point, Mr. Obama and his top advisers spent much of the past 24 hours briefing allies and Congressional leaders. The president called President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at 10 p.m. Monday and spent an hour discussing the new strategy, then called President Zardari of Pakistan at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. Mr. Obama also talked with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland , both of whom have forces in Afghanistan. 
  
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 The White House issued a statement praising Pakistan as it announced Mr. Obama’s call with Mr. Zardari. “The president recognized the profound sacrifices Pakistan has made in its efforts to combat extremists in its northwest and emphasized that our goal is to defeat Al Qaeda and to ensure stability in the region,” it said. 
  
 While the number of troops Mr. Obama is deploying falls short of the figure sought by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal , his commander in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama is also counting on reinforcements from American allies. Those allies currently have nearly 40,000 troops in Afghanistan, but European and Canadian officials have said they doubt Mr. Obama will get more than a few thousand more. 
  
 The new strategy draws heavily on lessons learned from President George W. Bush ’s “surge” and strategy shift in Iraq in 2007, which Mr. Obama opposed as a senator and presidential candidate. Mr. Obama’s advisers are even referring to his troop buildup as an “extended surge.” 
  
 A critical part of Mr. Obama’s strategy is to succeed in an area where Mr. Bush failed: Training a reliable Afghan force, not only the national army but a series of local forces as well. Currently, the Afghan army is in the lead in only one of 34 provinces in the country, around the capital of Kabul . 
  
 In addition to the influx of troops, administration officials said they are taking other lessons from the Iraq surge, such as empowering local security forces to stand up to Taliban militants in their communities and enhancing the training of national forces by embedding American troops with Afghan counterparts and later pairing similarly sized American and Afghan units to fight side by side. 
  
 “We learned a lot of lessons, painful lessons, out of Iraq on how to do training,” said one official involved in the discussions. 
  
 The central mission of the new strategy is the same as that described by the White House after its last review in March — to focus on destroying Al Qaeda, the group that mounted the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that still appears to have the reach to attack the United States. But regarding the Taliban, the administration’s latest review concluded that it needed only to degrade the capability of its various groups, some of which have close ties with Al Qaeda, on the assumption that they are indigenous and cannot be wiped out entirely. 
  
 Mr. Obama has sought to narrow America’s mission. There will be no talk of turning Afghanistan into a democracy — one of Mr. Bush’s central goals — and no discussion of “nation-building,” the officials said. But as they described it, some rudimentary nation-building is part of the plan, including helping the central government improve governance and curb corruption. ||||| West Point, New York (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan is part of a strategy to reverse the Taliban's momentum and stabilize the country's government. 
  
 "There is no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum," Obama said at the U.S. Military Academy. "Al Qaeda has not re-emerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their safe-havens along the border. 
  
 "And our forces lack the full support they need to effectively train and partner with Afghan security forces and better secure the population. ... In short, the status quo is not sustainable." 
  
 Obama said he'd begin sending the additional troops "at the fastest pace possible" starting in early 2010 "with a goal of starting to withdraw forces from the country in July 2011." 
  
 The president said additional U.S. forces bolstered by NATO troops "will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces." 
  
 Senior administration officials said Tuesday that Obama has a goal of withdrawing most U.S. forces by the end of his current term, which ends in January 2013. 
  
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 It will be the second increase of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country ordered by Obama since he took office in January. 
  
 In his speech Tuesday, Obama said his strategy had three objectives: 
  
 • Deny al Qaeda a safe haven 
  
 • Reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow Afghanistan's government 
  
 • Strengthen Afghanistan's security forces and government 
  
 The additional troops was one way to achieve these, he said. Other strategies will include holding Afghan government leaders accountable for corruption, focus assistance on areas that could help the lives of Afghans, and securing the country's border with Pakistan. 
  
 "We are in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through that country. But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan. That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border," Obama said. 
  
 The president said he rejected the option of committing more forces for an undefined mission of nation-building without any deadlines. 
  
 "I reject this course because it sets goals that are beyond what we can achieve at a reasonable cost, and what we need to achieve to secure our interests," Obama said. "Furthermore, the absence of a timeframe for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the Afghan government. It must be clear that Afghans will have to take responsibility for their security, and that America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan." 
  
 Obama rejected analogies with the war in Vietnam that divided America in the 1960s and 1970s. 
  
 "Unlike Vietnam, we are joined by a broad coalition of 43 nations that recognizes the legitimacy of our action," Obama said. "Unlike Vietnam, we are not facing a broad-based popular insurgency. And most importantly, unlike Vietnam, the American people were viciously attacked from Afghanistan, and remain a target for those same extremists who are plotting along its border." 
  
 Obama said the U.S. has no interest in occupying Afghanistan. 
  
 "We will support efforts by the Afghan government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence and respect the human rights of their fellow citizens," Obama said. "And we will seek a partnership with Afghanistan grounded in mutual respect -- to isolate those who destroy; to strengthen those who build; to hasten the day when our troops will leave; and to forge a lasting friendship in which America is your partner, and never your patron." 
  
 Obama spoke to an audience of West Point cadets, staff and guests in outlining his strategy that he has deliberated for months, meeting several times with his national security team. 
  
 He recognized that some in the audience had fought in Afghanistan, and some would be deployed in the future. 
  
 "As your commander in chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined, and worthy of your service," he said. 
  
 The additional U.S. forces "will increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight," Obama said. 
  
 "And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans." 
  
 Obama also said he is asking NATO allies to provide more troops, and that he is "confident that there will be further contributions in the days ahead." 
  
 "Our friends have fought and bled and died alongside us in Afghanistan," he said. "Now, we must come together to end this war successfully. For what's at stake is not simply a test of NATO's credibility -- what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world." 
  
 The new troop deployment would increase the total U.S. commitment to roughly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, bolstered by more than 40,000 NATO forces. 
  
 Obama, whom Republicans had accused of "dithering" over the decision, concluded the deployment needs to be accelerated to knock back the Taliban, the senior officials said. 
  
 The push for a speedy deployment is surprising because White House officials who defended Obama's slow pace of coming to a decision had said the Pentagon wouldn't be able to get new troops to Afghanistan that quickly. 
  
 A Pentagon official noted that, under the new strategy, Obama is "trying to do it faster" than the 12-month timeline initially requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. 
  
 McChrystal wrote in a report in August that a "failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible." 
  
 The Pentagon official said Obama's six-month timeline for sending the new troops is "very aggressive" and will be challenging for the military to fulfill. The official expressed confidence, however, that the military would successfully carry out the order. 
  
 Opponents of an increased U.S. troop deployment complain that the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is corrupt and an unreliable partner. 
  
 Obama spoke to Karzai for an hour by videoconference Tuesday to discuss the deployment decision, according to a White House statement. 
  
 "The president also emphasized that U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan are not open-ended and must be evaluated toward measurable and achievable goals within the next 18 to 24 months," the statement said. 
  
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 The decision to send the troops carries significant political risk for Obama, who will announce it nine days before he travels to Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. 
  
 His liberal base, which helped him win last year's presidential election, opposes another troop deployment to Afghanistan. 
  
 In addition, the deployment, expected to cost an extra $30 billion a year, comes amid high unemployment as the economy emerges from a recession. That concerns Democrats and Republicans faced with competing domestic priorities such as health care reform and job creation. 
  
 U.S.-led troops first invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist network's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. The invasion overthrew the ruling Taliban, which had allowed al Qaeda to operate from its territory, but most of the top al Qaeda and Taliban leadership escaped the onslaught. 
  
 Taliban fighters have since regrouped in the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, battling U.S. and Afghan government forces on one side and Pakistani troops on the other. Al Qaeda's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large and are suspected to be hiding in the same region. 
  
 The conflict has so far claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops. |||||
Solution:
President Obama wants the war effort in Afghanistan wrapped up in 3 years and most US troops home by then, senior officials tell CNN. He also wants to speed up deployment of the 30,000 or so additional troops he's sending, with the first Marines expected to be on the ground by Christmas. All new troops are expected to be in place within 6 months, reports the AP. The details come ahead of Obama's address to the nation tonight. The new troops will bring the total number of US forces to about 100,000 by the end of May. “We want to knock the Taliban back, giving us time and space to build the Afghans up mainly in the security front but also in governance and development as well,” a senior official tells the New York Times.