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Barack Obama- President of the United States Jill W. A quality perspective will: •Answer the questions in extended power paragraphs. inconsistently used--evidence required •Draw evidence from two high quality, credible sources. Evidence not cited •Cite evidence internally and in a Works Cited-- no internal citations and WC inaccurately formatted. •Post your entry on the wiki by Friday, December 9th.

1. Introduce your person and explain why he/she has a credible opinion on the War in Afghanistan. Credit sources 2. Describe your person's perspective on the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan. Your answer should address following bullet points: •Why is he/she interested in Afghanistan? Is it personal, political, social, economic, religious, humanitarian, etc? •How was this person affected when the Taliban controlled Afghanistan •How has this person been affected by the United States presence in Afghanistan? •How would this person's life change if the United States left Afghanistan abruptly? 3. How would your person answer the question: When should the United States leave Afghanistan? No evidence **Paragraph 1:** Introduce your person and explain why he/she has a credible opinion on the War in Afghanistan. As you probably already know, Barack Obama is currently the president of the United States. He is a credible person to go to for an opinion on the War in Afghanistan because, well, he's the president- so he's basically coming up with and calling a lot the shots in Afghanistan. He will help decide if we stay our go, and also comes up with ideas of what we should do in Afghanistan. According to a reporter from the Atlantic Council, " President Obama’s speech, delivered June 22nd, 2011, on the withdrawal of 10,000 U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and a total of 33,000 by next summer will have important implications for Afghanistan and South Asia. The drawdown of U.S. forces will trigger reactions from the region that may affect the success of the exit strategy from Afghanistan. But many questions remain about the efficacy of the U.S. strategy and the willingness and ability of the Afghan authorities, Pakistan, and India to help the upcoming transition in Afghanistan." This statement proves that Obama has a lot of experience in Afghanistan, and is a good source of opinion.   **Paragraph 2:**   Describe your persons perspective on the US' involvement in Afghanistan. This answer has 4 parts.  Obama's perspective on Afghanistan is mainly that we need to stay there for a couple more years. He is involved in Afghanistan because, hes the president, so for political reasons. He believes that if we leave now, the people in Afghanistan will be still unsafe and the government will continue to be unstable. Ismail Salami from NOVA news said that "Obama’s recent comment on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, claimed that “our citizens are safer and our nation is more secure”. With out our troops occupying Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan wouldn't be as secure as they are now. When the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Obama was effected because they left Afghanistan open as a safe haven for terrorists and terrorist groups. So when we went in to Afghanistan, it was to help the citizens and ourselves. When US troops were sent into Afghanistan, Obama was left with the duty of making desicions and coming up with ideas and stradegys to make sure that the Taliban didn't re-gain control. If the US left abruptly, Obamas life would change in the ways that there would be protestors against him and his desicion to let them leave, and there would most likely be negative consequences of letting the Taliban come back into Afghanistan, because then Afghanistan would again become a safe-haven for terrorists, which would also effect Obama's life, because he would have to deal with the consequences. **Paragraph 3:** How would your person answer the question: When should the United States leave Afghanistan? President Obama would most likely answer the question "when should the United States leave Afghanistan?" by saying, like he has said many times before, that he is planning on keeping the troops in Afghanistan until at least 2014. According to Jim Sciutto from ABC news, "President Obama has ordered the U.S. military to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and pull out another 23,000 by the summer of 2012, part of what he called "the beginning, but not the end, of our effort to wind down this war." I feel that by Obama pulling out large numbers of troops slowly, but surely, we will be able to be up and out of Afghanistan by 2014.

Sciutto, Jim, Mary Bruce, and Devin Dwyer. "Obama Orders Start to US Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan." //www.abcnews.com//. ABC News, 22 June 2011. Web. 11 Dec. 2011. <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ president-obama-orders-start-us-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan/ story?id=13908291>.

Salami, Ismail. "President Obama's Cyclopean Perspective on the war in

Afghanistan." www.shoah.com. N.p., 16 Oct. 2011. Web. 9 Dec. 2011.

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