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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Biden says US will help Afghanistan after pullout By TAREK ELTABLAWY,Associated Press - Tuesday, January 11 Send IM Story Print KABUL, Afghanistan – Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that America will not cut and run in 2014, when the U.S.-led military coalition plans to hand over control of security to Afghan forces. Speaking after a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Biden said training and aid will continue even after responsibility for security is handed over. He added that both sides share a common goal of a "stable, sovereign Afghanistan." If "the Afghan people want it, we won't leave in 2014," the vice president said a day after arriving in the country for a surprise visit. Tensions have surfaced between the Obama administration and an increasingly nationalistic Karzai, whose government is plagued by charges of corruption. U.S. officials have expressed grave concerns about how this is affecting efforts to stabilize and rebuild the country. Just a month ago, President Barack Obama came to Afghanistan but did not meet with Karzai. The White House said that foul weather foiled plans to take Obama to the presidential palace in Kabul from the Bagram Air Field military base where he landed, and that technical difficulties prevented the two presidents from talking by secure videoconference. Although the two leaders spoke briefly by telephone, the change of plans was seen by some in Karzai's circle as a snub. Biden's visit could be aimed in part at smoothing things over with Karzai. A pleased-looking Karzai recalled that when Biden first traveled to Afghanistan as a senator after the U.S. invasion "we met each other in a very cold room, with no electricity." Now, he added, "we have electricity and good rooms in here. Afghanistan'a condition has improved and it is better now, we are very thankful for the U.S. assistance to Afghanistan." Just ahead of their news conference, Karzai said they had worked "on the transition," a reference to the decision taken last November at a NATO summit in Lisbon to transfer responsibility for the security of the country to Afghan forces within four years. Biden thanked Karzai for his efforts at the summit and said: "I think it's gotten us on the same page." Biden himself tried to reassure Afghans at the news conference that it "is not our intention to govern or to nation build" and that United States had "moved into a new phase in Afghanistan which relates to the transition of security responsibility to Afghans." Biden said he was last in Afghanistan two years ago and that much had changed since then. "We have a strategy and the resources in place to accomplish the goal of a stable and growing and independent Afghanistan able to provide for its own security," he said. "And the process to be able at the same time, to disrupt and dismantle, defeat, eliminate al-Qaida in Pakistan and what little appearance there is in Afghanistan." The U.S. has been carrying out drone strikes against safe havens in Pakistan's tribal belt and has tried to pressure its military to move against extremists in places like North Waziristan _ a request Pakistan has so far refused. The Pakistani military has said it is too busy dealing with its own Taliban insurgents in other areas. Biden angered many Afghans last month when he said that next summer's planned start of the withdrawal of U.S. forces would be more than a token reduction and that the U.S. would be out of the country by 2014 "come hell or high water." Obama has discussed maintaining a counterterrorism capability in Afghanistan after 2014 and the Afghan security force training program is expected to last until 2016. As recently as Dec. 16, Obama said the U.S. and its NATO allies would have an enduring presence there after 2014, although the details of that were unclear. Although military forces are making headway against the insurgency and have reclaimed parts of the south, it remains unclear if the gains will be permanent. The Obama administration acknowledged in a year-end review that while Taliban momentum has been stopped in some areas and reversed in others, "gains remain fragile and reversible." The U.S. has said repeatedly that July would mark the beginning of the troop withdrawals and that their size would depend on military conditions. Military officials have said privately they expect the reductions to be small. Ahead of the meeting with Karzai, Biden spoke to Obama by phone and met with a couple hundred U.S. Embassy employees. Biden told them Obama had been disappointed he had not met them when he was in Afghanistan one month ago. Karzai's relations with U.S. diplomatic officials in Kabul are thought to be testy at best, and he has often complained of international interference in Afghanistan's political affairs. As part of the visit, Biden toured a military training center to review the effort to prepare Afghan forces to take over from the U.S.-led coalition. During the visit to the Kabul Military Training Center just outside the capital, Biden was briefed on the program, which is costing $20 billion over 2010 and 2011 _ 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. The coalition hopes to train about 300,000 army and police officers by the end of the year. The Afghan army now has 149,553 personnel and is projected to grow to 171,600 by October, according to NATO figures. The air force is slated to grow from 4,098 personnel in December to 5,500 by November. The police force is projected to hit 134,000 by October, up from 115,584 by the end of last year. The program is paying for training, equipment and infrastructure amid concerns about the ability of Afghan security forces to take up the fight against a virulent insurgency. The program is also teaching recruits to read and write. Only 11 percent of enlisted personnel and 35 percent of noncommissioned officers in Afghanistan's army and police are literate. ___ Associated Press writers Patrick Quinn and Rahim Faiez contributed to this report. 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