• 100k number of troops the U.S. has stationed in Afghanistan right now
• 30k number of troops Obama added to that total earlier this year
• 20k troops could leave in 2011 without significantly affecting the war source

• » The progress so far: Those numbers, which come from the Obama administration’s assessment of the war, suggest that the administration is optimistic about the way things are going – particularly that they’ve stunted the Taliban’s momentum. Hopefully that’s true – a prior report from the US National Intelligence Estimates suggested things were much gloomier.

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