but we will not give up on this mission because afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for al qaeda to launch attacks against us. we won't build a perfect afghanistan. let's be clear we are making some tangible progress with more markets open, more health send subpoena terse working, more -- centers working and children going to school and people achieving a more basic standard of living a and security. we can help assure afghanistan is capable of give delivering its own security without need of large numbers of foreign troops. we are no the final stages much our military mission. that means completing training of the afghan forces so they can take over the tasks of maintaining security themselves. that transition to afghan control as agreed in lisbon is well underway and next year the president said in 2013, this includes shifting to a support role as afghans take the lead. this is and in advance of after fwan forces taking