Obama Meeting Advisers Amid Debate on Afghan Policy - nytimes

WASHINGTON — Eight years to the day after the start of the war in Afghanistan, the White House and Congress were agonizing on Wednesday about what to do next in that isolated, mountainous country that has been called “the graveyard of empires.” - Obama Meeting Advisers Amid Debate on Afghan Policy

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