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This is one of the better kept secrets from the white house, and no official word from military circles in washington either. We know the president met with his top military leaders at camp david. After that the final decision was made. But exactly what the president is going to announce well hear three hours from now when he takes to the microphone. On the groundn in afghanistan, 8,400u. S. Troops. Each one of those have very complicated and geopolitical factors with them. This is a decision the president weighed on for several months now. Some have criticized him for even taking that long. But the defense secretary jim mattis said earlier today that this was a rigorous process. Im very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and did not go in with a preset condition in terms of what questions could be asked and what decisions could be made. We now are just hearing within the last few seconds foxconn firming that the president will announce 4,000 troops being ....