Obama set to decide on deploying 32,000+ troops to Afghanistan

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he plans to announce his decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war inAfghanistan "after Thanksgiving."

In comments at a press conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he added that his intention is to "finish the job" in Afghanistan but that the Afghan people "ultimately have to provide for their own security."

Military officials and others expect Obama to settle on a middle-ground option that would deploy an eventual 32,000 to 35,000 U.S. forces to the 8-year-old conflict. That rough figure has stood as the most likely option since before Obama's last large war council meeting earlier this month, when he tasked military planners with rearranging the timing and makeup of some of the deployments.