Afghan President Hamid Karzai (right) speaks during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (left) shakes hands with Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith (right) as U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder (second from left) and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen look on during a round-table meeting of NATO defense ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)