From Wired
''Remember how President Obama said on the campaign trail that he would “responsibly end the war” in Afghanistan in 2014? Or when Vice President Biden said the president’s plan was “to end the war in 2014?” The general they want to lead that war is singing a much different tune.
During his confirmation hearing to take command in Kabul, Marine Gen.
Joseph Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday
that the U.S. needs to present a “clear and compelling narrative of
commitment” to Afghanistan, beyond the 2014 timeframe for turning over
security to the Afghans. Step one is to negotiate the contours of a
post-2014 U.S. force in Afghanistan, to “create momentum for that
narrative that I was alluding to.''
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