President Obama met with soldiers in upstate New York Thursday as part of his effort to drum up support for his plan on maintaining the war in Afghanistan. Obama has announced he will scale back his troop surge but will keep a large troop force in Afghanistan until 2014. Obama told soldiers, “There’s still some fighting to be done.”

President Obama: “Our job is not finished. If you looked at the schedule that I set forth, you know, we’re only bringing out 10,000 by the end of this year. We’re going to bring out all 33,000 that we surged by next summer. But there’s still some fighting to be done.”