NATO Summit in Portugal

Leaders of NATO are meeting today in Portugal with the goal of discussing pulling out troops from Afghanistan by as late as 2014 and possibly earlier. The United States is taking the meeting in Lisbon very serious by sending not only Secretary of State Hilary Clinton but President Barak Obama as well. Key topics being discussed will be about the transfer of power back to the Afghan people. This has been a major struggle for America when dealing with Iraq and the problems seemed to have crept into Afghanistan as well. The United States is expected to face tough questions from its European allies in the EU. Other issues expected to be disscussed during the meeting include Turkey and Iran. Finally NATO is expected to issue a new mission statement designed to warn EU nations against defense spending in this time of economic crisis. This article was found on Yahoo.com:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_nato_summit

Tom Kuebel