Obama seeks delicate balance with Karzai

Kabul : Afghanistan | Mar 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM PDT

Source: Associated Press

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President Barack Obama's tone in Kabul was all business as he hammered home his theme that the Afghans need to do more to fight corruption and reform government to defeat the Taliban. The arm's-length approach was the administration's latest attempt to strike the right balance in dealing with President Hamid Karzai.

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