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"Today we are reaffirming our shared goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future." (CNN)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with American President Barack Obama to discuss the war in Afghanistan, and, apparently, to smooth over relations between the two countries. Mr. Obama recently accused Mr. Karzai of not doing enough to fight corruption, while Mr. Karzai accused Mr. Obama of not giving enough support to Afghanistan.

CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry says both sides have no choice but to work together.

"I don't wanna say that it turned into a bro-mance today because it probably didn't go that far, but clearly they're getting along now, and I think it's for an obvious reason when you talk to senior White House people. They've got no other option in Afghanistan, and we've now got about 87,000 U.S. troops committed on the ground in Afghanistan. The last thing you could do is undermine the elected leader in Afghanistan."

MSNBC talks to NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, who reports that the meeting had a constructive agenda.

"I wouldn't say there were any surprises at all. The idea was to show that the U.S. and Afghanistan are on the same page. The president, President Obama described the differences between the two governments as exaggerated, and they're trying to come up with a joint timeline, similar to what they did in Iraq, so what the U.S. did in Iraq, putting out a series of benchmarks and goals."

During the meeting, Mr. Karzai discussed the possibility of molding Taliban forces into the Afghan government in the near future. Fox News' Senior White House Correspondent Major Garrett says there may be issues with that.

"The question, Shepard, is who will these people be? If you're a high-level Taliban person, figure, leader, you have ties to al-Qaida almost by definition, you're an extremist almost by definition, and you have blood on your hands, either U.S. blood, Afghan blood, or coalition forces blood on your hands. Can the Afghans really credibly bring those folks into the government? And will the United States be willing to watch that procedure go forward? The only thing President Obama said was, he thought that President Karzai's formulation was about right."

But a scholar at the Middle East Institute tells The Take Away that Karzai's plan is just a ploy for the U.S.

"It serves his purpose. He has distracted us. He's changed the agenda from just being our laying on to him that he's got to end corruption."

Do you think this meeting will warm up cold relations? Should members of the Taliban be integrated into Afghanistan's government?

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