President Obama has announced his decision to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year and 23,000 in 2012. For the U.S. president, the elimination of Osama bin Laden and two-thirds of Al Qaeda’s leaders, the untenable cost of the conflict ($118 billion this year alone), and the relative success of recent operations mark a turning point in the war that began in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
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