Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. You may remember that optimistic young senator from illinois who told the public he wasnt against all wars. Just dumb wars. He promised he would wrap up the american project in iraq and leave, emphasize getting afghanistan right and leave there, too. But wrapping up more than a decade of war has been difficult as iraq keeps sliding deeper into dissolution, and more than a dozen years of blood and treasure still seems undporchable. Ungovernable. So now the president says hes not leaving. I will not let afghanistan be used as safe haven to attack by terrorists again. Training Afghan Forces and training Counterterrorism Forces against the remnants of al qaeda. Of course, compared to the 100,000 troops we once had in afghanistan, today fewer than 10,000 remain in support of these very focused missions. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintire explains the unwitnes onceande American Mission in afghanistan. The president s surprising phase, u. S. Trained afghan army