Biden Offers Help for Afghans after Pullout

Image via WikipediaKABUL, Afghanistan

Vice President Joe Biden said when the military coalition led by the U.S. plans to hand over control of security to Afghan forces America will not abandon in 2014.
After a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Biden said training and aid will continue even after responsibility for security is handed over adding that both sides share a common goal of a "stable, sovereign Afghanistan."

Tensions have surfaced between the Obama administration and Karzai who's becoming increasingly nationalistic and whose government is facing charges of corruption. American  officials have expressed  concerns about how the situation has affected efforts to rebuild and stabilize the country.

Biden was briefed on the program - which is costing $20 billion over 2010 and 2011- during his visit to the Kabul Military Training Center just outside Kabul. The program is estimated to be a price equivalent to the cost of three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a large increase over the $20 billion spent between 2003 and 2009.