Obama sets Afghan, Pakistan goals, waits on troops

2009/09/16 16:22:01 @Reuters: Top News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would not make a swift decision on sending more U.S. forces to Afghanistan and set out broad goals for Kabul and neighboring Pakistan to rein in militants and corruption that critics dismissed as vague. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=Y31J10vwuSk:ATK46LNOnBU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=Y31J10vwuSk:ATK46LNOnBU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=Y31J10vwuSk:ATK46LNOnBU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=Y31J10vwuSk:ATK46LNOnBU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=Y31J10vwuSk:ATK46LNOnBU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/Y31J10vwuSk" height="1" width="1"/
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