As President Obama met with his war council to consider the next move on Afghanistan over the past three months, a growing chorus of dissenters worried that the eight year conflict is in danger of becoming a quagmire like the one that cost the lives of 50,000 U.S. soldiers more than 30 years ago. In his speech outlining his new plans for the Afghan conflict this evening, Obama confronted those critics head on.
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