West Point Speech: The View from the Stage

Obama's West Point Speech: The View from the Stage TIME photographer Christopher Morris surveys the scene as the President describes his plan for Afghanistancadets at West Point
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Sea of Gray
Though the President's immediate plan calls for a troop increase, he also said that his goal was to begin to transition U.S. forces out of Afghanistan by 2011.

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