Obama vows to speed up Afghan troop transition
- Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 02.45
- Online news: Asia
US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US goal in Afghanistan was "within reach" as he vowed to move ahead with a timetable to end the 11-year-old military campaign and focus on a broad domestic agenda.
US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai leave after a joint press conference at the White House on January 11, 2013. Obama has said the US goal in Afghanistan was "within reach" as he vowed to move ahead with a timetable to end the 11-year-old military campaign and focus on a broad domestic agenda.
"We've pushed the Taliban out of their strongholds," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. "And our core objective -- the reason we went to war in the first place -- is now within reach: ensuring that Al-Qaeda can never again use Afghanistan to launch attacks against America."
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