"War on terror" -- the Bush-era phrase that has disappeared at the Obama White House -- appeared again on Monday. When spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked about funding and troop levels for the war in Afghanistan, he said:
We are not -- the President, whether it's the economy, health care, or anything, isn't going to -- we're not going to make -- we're not going to see the entire thing turn around in a few months, after years and years of neglect. You can't under-resource the most important part of our war on terror, you can't under-resource that for five or six or seven years -- whether it's under-resourced with troops, whether it's under-resourced with civilian manpower, whether it's under-resourced with economic development funding -- and hope to snap your fingers and have that turn around in just a few months.
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