President Obama defends escalation of Afghan war in address to 2010 West Point class

By Ben Geman, The Hill, May 22, 2010

President Barack Obama on Saturday used a speech to West Point cadets to defend his escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

Obama also placed a heavy emphasis on winning international cooperation and bolstering non-military sources of American power.

Obama’s remarks to the graduating class revealed both continuity with former President Bush’s hard stance against violent extremists and a break with the unilateralism that Bush critics called a defining feature of his presidency.

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