PullQuote: Soldiers in Afghanistan

Though it's not a representative sample, Stars & Stripes interviewed several American soldiers at Kandahar Airfield and Baraki Barak about President Obama's announcement concerning Afghanistan and their opinion seems overwhelmingly positive.

We're so spread out now that it's hard to keep control over the areas we have," Strickland said. "I think it's right to send more guys over here, so that we can regain positive control and then turn it over to the Afghans, like we did with the Iraqis in Iraq. I'm all for whatever we need to do to end this.