In Assessing the Damage, Fears of an Emboldened Taliban

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United States Army and Afghan soldiers stood guard at a military base in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province on Sunday.
WASHINGTON — The outrage from the back-to-back episodes of the Koran burning and the killing on Sunday of at least 16 Afghan civilians imperils what the Obama administration once saw as an orderly plan for 2012: to speed the training of Afghan forces so that they can take the lead in combat missions, all while drawing the Taliban into negotiations to end more than a decade of constant war.
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