Hamid Karzai

President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Friday they have agreed to speed up slightly the schedule for moving Afghanistan's security forces into the lead across the country, with U.S. troops shifting fully to a support role. The leaders also said Obama agreed to place battlefield detainees under the control of the Afghan government.

President Barack Obama has spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss efforts to reconcile with elements of the Taliban, including his meeting last week with Pakistani and Iranian leaders.

It's not that I really care what Al-jazeera does with this. Nor do I really care what the enemy thinks about us….or how outraged Hamid Karzai is. This is more a statement of what we think about ourselves. Last night during The Late Show, I talked about the video of the marines urinating over the corpses of dead Taliban...