President Karzai and Afghanistan in 2014

On January 10, 2013, David S. Cloud and Alexandra Zavis from the Los Angeles Times wrote an article called "Karzai Faces an Altered Landscape in Talks with Obama". It discusses the plans President Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, and President Obama are going to make so troops can leave Afghanistan. The whole goal is to have Afghanistan fight its own war from now on. But that does not mean we are not going to leave troops behind. President Karzai requests that some troops stay behind for training and protection of key sectors around the country. Congress recommends that 6000-9000 troops stay at Afghanistan when all troops are taken out. But President Obama believes that only 3000 is needed. At this moment, 65,000 troops are in Afghanistan. The plan is to bring in however many troops are needed into Afghanistan and then start redeploying all the former stationed troops back home. These troops are going to be targeting Al Quada members only. Taliban has gotten off the list in Afghanistan, but is still a target in other areas around the world. The way in which Al Quada will be targeted in Afghanistan is through drone strikes and special operations with the use of special forces. The troops that are going to be deployed there as a safekeeping will not engage in offensive objectives unless given the order from the Pentagon. Hopefully, at the end of this, the troops being deployed there do not get into contact into another war.