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As it happened, the president tackled the issue for them. Toward the beginning of August of that year, when Mr. Obama met a meeting of the National Security Chamber, he checked out the table and recognized a stark new reality.
"The fever in this room has at long last broken," the president told the gathering, as per a man in the meeting. "We're no more extended in country building mode."
What Mr. Obama implied was that nobody in the Circumstance Room that day, himself included, suspected that the Unified States — following 14 years of war, billions of dollars spent and more than 2,000 American lives lost — could ever change Afghanistan into a similarity of a vote based system ready to safeguard itself.
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In the meantime, he included, "the counterterrorism difficulties are genuine." As grim as Afghanistan's prospects were, the Assembled States couldn't stand to leave and permit the nation to end up distinctly a seedbed for radicals once more.
A couple of weeks after the fact, the president ended the withdrawal and reported that he would leave a huge number of American troops in the nation uncertainly.
It was an essential defining moment in the development of Barack Obama. The antiwar competitor of 2008 who had promised to pivot Afghanistan — the "great war" to George W. Shrubbery's "terrible war" in Iraq — had yielded that the longest military operation in American history would not end on his watch. The idealistic president who once thought Afghanistan was winnable had, through intense experience, turn into the president of an eternity war.
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