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It is time for a significant and sustained reduction of American combat forces in Afghanistan; time to shift our strategy from one of counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism and to focus our engagement on those who present a real and continuing threat to our national security.

The events of 9-11 clearly justified our intervention in Afghanistan to defeat al Qaida and bring Bin Laden to justice. Our original goals have been largely met. According to the Director of the CIA, fewer than 100 members of Al Qaida remain in Afghanistan. Bin Laden is dead. We have drained the swamp and our task now is not nation-building in Afghanistan, but ensuring that the swamp does not fill again. We can accomplish that mission with a fraction of the current force. We can send tens of thousands of troops home to their families and to a grateful nation.

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