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WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has
not made a decision about how many U.S. troops may stay in
Afghanistan after 2014 or the pace of a troop drawdown before
that, the White House said on Monday.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would be
reviewing proposals on the subject in the coming weeks and
months.
“He will evaluate proposals from the Pentagon and elsewhere
on what we might negotiate with the Afghan government on a
future presence in Afghanistan,” after 2014, Carney told
reporters.
“That presence would be very limited in scope … (and)
focused on counterterrorism operations and training of Afghan
forces.”
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Eric
Walsh)
