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.
a
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