IN KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that the new U.S. strategy was better than expected. Obama said there would be a focus on training Afghan forces.Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press
Afghanistan Will Not Be A Quagmire, Obama Assures -- L.A. Times
President Obama says the troop buildup and other efforts are not open-ended, emphasizing the need for diplomatic and development efforts in both Afghanistan and Pakistan to curb militancy.
Reporting from Washington -- Invoking what he described as a lesson of Vietnam, President Obama said Sunday that his commitment to step up military operations in Afghanistan was not open-ended, and that success would require vigorous diplomatic and development efforts there and in neighboring Pakistan.
Obama framed the escalation of military activity in Afghanistan and aid for Pakistan that he announced Friday as part of an effort to regain focus on defeating or neutralizing Al Qaeda, which was dislodged from enclaves in Afghanistan after the U.S.-led invasion in late 2001.
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