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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 01, 2009
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way
Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Eisenhower Hall Theatre, United States Military Academy at West
Point, West Point, New York
8:01 . EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of
Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow
Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in
Afghanistan -- the nature of mitment there, the scope of our
interests, and the strategy that my administration will pursue to bring this
war to a essful conclusion. It's an extraordinary honor for me to do
so here at West Point -- where so many men and women have prepared to
stand up for our security, and to represent what is finest about our country.
To address these important issues, it's important to recall why America
and our allies pelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first
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place. We did not ask for this fight. On September 11, 2001, 19 men
hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people.
They struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They took the
lives of innocent men, women, and children without regard to their faith
or race or station. Were it not for the heroic actions of passengers
onboard one of those flights, they could have also struck at one of the
great symbols of our democracy in Washington, and killed many more.
As we know, these men belonged to al Qaeda -- a group of extremists who
have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world’s great religions, to
justify the slaughter of innocents. Al Qaeda’s base of operations was in
Afghanistan, where they were harbored by the Taliban -- a ruthless,
repressive and radical movement that seized control of that country after it
was ravaged by years of Soviet oc