Obama, Karzai meet at White House

US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at the White House on Wednesday in a show of unity aimed at patching over differences at a pivotal time in the nearly nine-year-old war.

The White House talks were meant not only to reassure the Afghan leader of a long-term US commitment to his government but also to persuade a skeptical American public and Congress that the war is worth fighting and funding. (Reuters)