War in Afghanistan

Obama has committed to sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. While acknowledging that their is still much work to be done in the country, Obama set a July 2011 deadline to begin withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

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Spent about an hour finalizing jeapordy questions and figuring out what we are going to say as a pitch to begin our presentation.

War in Afghanistan

Afghanistan interior minister Hanif Atmar said security in Afghanistan has improved in some places but deteriorated in others. He is, however, still confident that the Taliban can be defeated. These remarks came as President Barack Obama moves closer to deciding whether or not to send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

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We had our meetings today and got some good suggestions from Ms. Dighton about how to make our project more effective. We spent about 45 minutes outside of class discussing how to put those suggestions into reality and I then tried to find more useful information to go towards our jeapordy questions.