Friday, January 11, 2013

Obama, Karzai agree to speed up military transition and U.S. troop withdrawal

Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens as U.S. President Obama speaks during a news conference at the White House on Friday. PHOTO/Whitehouse.org

Uneasy allies, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai demonstrated Friday they could agree on one big idea: After 11 years of war, the time is right for U.S. forces to let Afghans do their own fighting. U.S. and coalition forces will take a battlefield back seat by spring and, by implication, go home in larger numbers soon

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