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Obama to meet Afghan, Pakistan leaders on strategy. By David Alexander. Monday, May 4, 2009 12:58 am ET

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 8:05 AM EDT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama presents his strategy for defeating al Qaeda to the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday amid growing U.S. concern it is losing the war and neither is a reliable ally.

The White House meetings with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are likely to be cagey affairs -- both visitors have been heavily criticized by Obama's administration and are also wary of each other.

Equally, Obama's new strategy for defeating al Qaeda and Taliban militants operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan has not been universally welcomed in either country.

Wednesday is Obama's first face-to-face meeting with the two men to discuss his new regional strategy and is a chance to air his concerns about corruption and poor governance.

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As he seeks to wind down the war in Iraq, Obama's strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan has won some praise for its focus on boosting aid and development and not relying entirely on a military solution to the fight against al Qaeda.

"Today the war is being lost in Afghanistan, but is not yet lost," Bruce Riedel, an author of Obama's strategy, wrote in a piece for the Brookings Institution think tank last week. "President Obama has decided to send the resources to the war to break the movement of the Taliban. He is right to do so."

But some argue it does not go far enough to change past policies that have failed to yield results.

Many Pakistanis are angry that U.S. drone attacks on their soil have continued under Obama. Aimed at al Qaeda's leaders, the strikes from unmanned aircraft have often killed civilians.

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