Playing Chicken in Kabul -- Rajan Menon.

As American troops withdraw from Afghanistan to fulfill President Obama's commitment to wind up the war by the end of next year, Kabul and Washington are engaged in a game of chicken as they negotiate the terms of a strategic partnership that would allow a "residual force" of U.S. military advisers and Special Operations Forces to remain beyond 2013. - Playing Chicken in Kabul - huffpost
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