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President Obama salutes in October 2009 at Dover Air Force Base, Del., as a team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., who died in Afghanistan. Impatience and uncertainty are rife on all sides on the war's ninth anniversary. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has already taken part in one debate, qualifying her for public campaign funds.
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Dionne Spikes (left) and her half sister Melinda Patterson shop at a Cincinnati Kroger store Sept. 30 while they wait for the clock to strike midnight, when their food-stamp benefits will be replenished. Americans relying on government benefits are doing their homework to stretch the payments. (Associated Press)
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Religious students forced to beg by their Koranic teacher ask for change from cars on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's government said that it is stepping up its campaign against begging in the streets of the capital, where tens of thousands of children can be seen wandering barefoot and swarming cars for change. (Associated Press)
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President Obama stands with Phil and Maureen Miller, parents of Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington as the soldier posthumously is awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Armed police officers walk across Whitehall in front of the Cenotaph war memorial in London on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A Pakistani officers shows a medal which is displayed along with other recovered equipment of NATO forces fighting in neighboring Afghanistan, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. The paramilitary Frontier Corps has recovered bulk of military gadgets, communication tools and uniforms etc. stolen from NATO convoys in recent months in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, official said.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Medals and other recovered equipment of NATO forces fighting in neighboring Afghanistan, are displayed in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. The paramilitary Frontier Corps has recovered bulk of military gadgets, communication tools and uniforms etc. stolen from NATO convoys in recent months in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, official said.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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In this picture taken on Sept. 27, 2010, medals and photographs stolen from NATO trucks, are displayed for the media in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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In this picture taken on Oct. 5, 2010, stranded NATO trucks are parked at Pakistani Torkham border along Afghanistan. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)
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Pakistani border guards stand on alert at a terminal of Afghanistan-bound NATO trucks parked at the Pakistani border post of Chaman along the Afghanistan border on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route in the country's north for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)
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In this picture taken on Sept. 27, 2010, a soldier of Pakistani para military force arranges equipment stolen from NATO trucks to display for the media in Peshawar, Pakistan. Drivers stand at a terminal where NATO containers are kept in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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In this picture taken on Sept. 27, 2010, a soldier of Pakistani para military force arranges equipment stolen from NATO trucks, displayed for media in Peshawar, Pakistan. drivers stand at a terminal where NATO containers are kept in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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In this picture taken on Sept. 27, 2010, a soldier of Pakistani paramilitary force arranges equipment stolen from NATO trucks to display for the media in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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This image made from a gun camera video released during a Pentagon Briefing in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001, shows an explosion during a strike by U.S. forces on a surface to air missile site located inside Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)
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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, April 13, 2005, file picture, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai give a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita, File)
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In this Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 file picture, newly trained female officers of Afghan National Army take front seats as a new group of officers attend their graduation ceremony at National Army's training center in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
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**FILE** In this photo from May 6, 2009, President Obama speaks to reporters after his meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in the Grand Foyer of the White House. (Associated Press)
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In this Monday March 8, 2010 file picture, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, speaks with Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal during a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool, File)
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In this Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001 U.S. Navy handout file picture, a Tomahawk cruise missile is launched from the USS Philippine Sea against military targets and Osama bin Laden's training camps inside Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Terry Cosgrove, File)
