Sorry for the short diary, but just saw this on an Afghan news source.
During a visit to southern Helmand province, Gen. Allen, accompanied by Afghan High Peace Council deputy head Farhadullah Farhad, met local officials and foreign troops.
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He added foreign troops were willing to stay beyond 2014 if the Afghans asked them to do so.
Interestingly the governor of Helmand province said he thinks they need the troops to stay.
But if you read more news it is obvious the Afghans views vary on troops leaving or not.
One thing I feel pretty confident about is the idea that our military may make a big pullout in the coming year or two, I doubt the mission will end in 2014.
Update with new story from NYTimes, just posted:
President Hamid Karzai met with Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and Gen. John R. Allen, the NATO commander in Afghanistan.
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In the meeting, the three men officially discussed for the first time an American proposal to accelerate the transfer of detention centers in the country to the Afghans to as soon as six months from now, but President Karzai stuck to his position that he wanted an immediate transfer of all detainees to Afghan control by a deadline of Friday, Mr. Faizi said.
The article also points out that there is NO mutual agreement on a pullout of troops in 2014.