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Credit: Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly/Files By David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS | Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:41am EST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO leaders will endorse a plan this week to bring troops home from Afghanistan gradually despite a dispute between President Hamid Karzai and the alliance's commander that highlights concern over war strategy. Just days before a NATO summit in Lisbon on Friday and Saturday, Karzai criticized raids by foreign forces as counter-productive and said they incited Afghans to join the Taliban insurgency against the government. U.S. and NATO commander General David Petraeus expressed "astonishment and disappointment" at the remarks and said they undermined the war effort, media said. The exchange highlighted the problems U.S. President Barack Obama faces over strategy in a war that is widely perceived as going badly for the United States and its allies, and has often been marked by differences with the Afghan leadership. "It's important we go on having a dialogue with President Karzai," a NATO diplomat said. "He's got his own views of things. But it's his plan in his sovereign country we are all busy implementing." NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who will chair the summit, said this week there was no alternative to military operations to force the Taliban toward a political solution. But he sought to play down the row by saying the thrust of Karzai's remarks showed he and NATO agreed on a need to cut NATO's combat role and transfer responsibility to Afghan forces. Karzai will attend the summit, at which the 28 NATO leaders will back a strategy of starting to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces from next year. The aim is that they should take the lead across the country by the end of 2014. Alliance officials say the plan should allow for a gradual reduction of foreign troops from a current peak of about 150,000 soldiers, but it is fraught with difficulties. The strategy hinges on efforts to build up Afghan forces so they can contain a widening insurgency, with a target strength set at more than 300,000 by the end of 2011. But this has been hampered by high desertion rates and the Kabul government is widely seen as too corrupt, unstable and inept to survive long without foreign military support, something NATO officials say will be needed for years to come. Mark Sedwill, NATO civilian representative in Kabul, said on Wednesday the transition could run "to 2015 and beyond" in some areas that could still face security problems. Allies have committed to stepping up their training effort in Afghanistan but Obama's announcement that a U.S. withdrawal will start next July has led them to look to scale back their roles, despite a lack of clear military progress. 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