President Barack Obama met with NATO leaders to discuss an exit strategy out of Afghanistan. Earlier this week, Obama met in Chicago with these leaders and proposed a withdrawal of the international military by the end of 2014. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary general, said that a new training and advising mission will come into effect in 2015. Afterwards, Afghan President Hamid Karzai stated that Afghan forces will be ready to take over security by 2014. Obama urged NATO to commit long-term to supporting Afghanistan, something which Rasmussen says will be done. After the NATO mission ends, there are plans to contribute $4 billion a year in order to support Afghan forces. It seems that both sides are primed and ready for the U.S. and NATO to go from combat mission in Afghanistan to a supporting role.
