Obama on Afghanistan

Here is a quote from former President Obama from 2014 when he made a surprise visit to Afghanistan. But while many of the 32,800 U.S. forces now in Afghanistan will leave in the coming months, Obama said a continued military presence could help protect gains made during nearly 13 years of fighting. “After all the sacrifices we’ve made, we want to preserve the gains that you have helped to win and we’re going to make sure that Afghanistan can never again, ever, be used again to launch an attack against our country,” Obama declared. A year later in 2015 Obama said Roughly 10,000 American troops will remain in Afghanistan through the end of the year, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday.