The Deployment of an Additional Thirty Thousand Soldiers in Afghanistan

question 43

Multiple Choice

The deployment of an additional thirty thousand soldiers in Afghanistan and the implementation of a new counterinsurgency strategy by American armed forces in the country during President Obama's first term

• A) secured the country from terrorists.
• B) produced no political progress in forging an agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
• C) was overwhelmingly opposed on a bipartisan basis in Congress, which attempted to force a withdrawal of these troops.
• D) undercut and contradicted the president's declaration that he would begin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan in 2011.
• E) None of these choices are correct.

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