Today U.S. media spread information about Obama’s yesterday meeting with congressional leaders.

October 6, during the White House meeting the U.S. President Barack Obama told the Congressional leaders that he would not dramatically reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. However, he does not intend to shift the anti-terrorist mission to search for another terrorist. The session showed that there is enhancing pressure on the President, Los Angeles Times reports. According to the daily, the congressmen are concerned over the terms within which Obama intends to decide on war strategy.

“The President reiterated that we need this debate to be honest and dispense with the straw man argument that this is about either doubling down or leaving Afghanistan,” one senior administration official said after the meeting ended, the daily reads.

According to Los Angeles Times, Obama seeks for happy medium, looking “between a major increase in the U.S. troop level and a large drawdown.”