America's non-committal relationship with Afghanistan - Foreign Policy

"A decade of war is now ending," the president announced in his inaugural address Monday, even as soldiers continue to prepare for nine-month deployments to destinations including Uruzgan and Kandahar.

The White House has long talked in the abstract about bringing a ‘responsible' end to the war President Obama once called the fight ‘we have to win.'  What has been less clear is what the U.S. government has in mind regarding the very critical details concerning its commitment to Afghanistan post-2014.- America's non-committal relationship with Afghanistan - Gayle Tzemach Lemmon