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Good evening. Nearly 10 years ago, America suffered the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor.

President Obama is expected to soon make an announcement about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The timeline isn’t clear. But the pressure is-the President’s initial deadline was July. Roughly 100,000 troops are currently serving in Afghanistan.

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Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is in Washington this week.

Attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 21 on Saturday, including police and soldiers, but mostly civilians.In one incident in the southern province of Kandahar, a remote-controlled bomb destroyed a minibus killing men, women and eight children.

Although several circumstances surrounding the war in Afghanistan are changing, it doesn't appear that overall U.S. strategy will change anytime soon.The July 2011 target President Obama set back in 2009 for beginning to draw down U.S.

There's close to a $1 trillion waiting to be unearthed beneath the rocky soil of Afghanistan. The massive deposits of iron, copper, gold and lithium could potentially turn the troubled nation's economy around."