Afghan Troop Levels Top Agenda For Obama-Karzai Talks -- Reuters
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will hold a critical round of talks on Friday that could help determine how fast the United States withdraws troops from Afghanistan and whether it leaves a residual force after 2014.
Hosting Karzai at the White House, Obama faces the challenge of pressing ahead with his re-election pledge to continue winding down the long war in Afghanistan while preparing the Afghan government to prevent a slide back into chaos and a Taliban resurgence once most NATO forces are gone.
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Karzai Makes His Case For Post-2014 US Assistance -- Voice of America
Clinton, Karzai Discuss US Role in Afghanistan Beyond 2014 -- Voice of America
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Afghanistan: Taliban may be 'weak,' but fear remains -- Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor
Is Afghanistan ready for a complete pullout? -- Deutsche Welle
Why the U.S. Can't Abandon Afghanistan -- Davood Moradian, Foreign Policy
Priorities Are Far Apart as Karzai and Obama Meet -- New York Times
U.S. policy and troops in Afghanistan -- Ronald E. Neumann, Washington Post
Zero Dark Afghanistan: Karzai's dysfunction meets Obama's detachment. -- Wall Street Journal
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