Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Obama announced that he would slow the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops after a White House meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The decision to keep more U.S. forces in Afghanistan this year was driven by the administration's confidence in Ghani, who Obama praised repeatedly. Relations between Ghani's predecessor, Hamid Karzai, and the U.S. government had been steadily deteriorating for years. Obama lauded Ghani, who took office in September, for taking on "the mantle of commander in chief in a way that we have not seen in the past from an Afghan president." But Obama also made it clear that he wouldn't depart from his current plan to close the remaining U.S. bases in Afghanistan and consolidate the remaining U.S. forces in Kabul by the end of 2016. |
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