Obambi rolls back Afghan withdrawal three years.

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Nation & World | White House moves away from 2011 Afghanistan withdrawal timeline | Seattle Times Newspaper

The new policy will be on display next week during a NATO conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where the administration hopes to introduce a timeline that calls for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan by 2014, according to three senior officials and others speaking anonymously as a matter of policy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Afghan troops could provide their security by then.

The Pentagon also has decided not to announce specific dates for handing security responsibility for several Afghan provinces to local officials and instead intends to work out a more vague definition of transition...

This should be about midterm of the next president, whoever that may be.