NEW OUTPOST - U.S. Marines serving as engineers move a stack of Hesco barriers at a new combat outpost in Musa Qal’eh, Afghanistan, Nov. 13, 2010. Building an elevated position at the top of a hill allows Afghan forces the ability to watch over the surrounding area. The engineers are assigned to the 1st Marine Division's 1st Combat Engineer Battalion. U.S. Marine Corps photoU.S. Appears Ready To Acknowledge A Long Haul In Afghanistan -- L.A. Times
As NATO leaders meet in Lisbon this weekend, the U.S. is expected to endorse a plan for slow withdrawal and gradually handing over security responsibility by 2014.
Reporting from Washington — President Obama built his Afghanistan strategy around the bet that he could quickly turn around a "must win" war by narrowing his goals and sending more troops. This weekend he will make his clearest acknowledgement yet that doing so will actually take years.
At a summit in Lisbon this weekend, Obama and other NATO leaders will endorse a plan to gradually turn combat responsibility over to the Afghan army and police by 2014, a timetable that will keep tens of thousands of U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan well beyond the end of Obama's first term.
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Canada to halve aid to Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/AFP
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