article_snippet: President Obama meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani this week, and is open to slowing the withdrawal of U.S. forces.  
article_snippet: Julie Pace of The Associated Press shared inside reporting on the administration's willingness to leave up to 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan for the time being.
article_snippet: There's one big reason why President Obama is going to have some flexibility in the drawdown, and that's because President Obama's very focused on one specific aspect of this plan, and that is pulling out all U.S. troops by the end of 2016," said Pace.
article_snippet: That would allow President Obama to make the case at the end of President Obama presidency that President Obama had fulfilled President Obama promise to end the war in Afghanistan.