As President Barack Obama prepares to make a major decision about the pace of U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, congressional opposition to the decade-long war appears to be hardening.

But it’s unclear whether critics of the president’s Afghanistan policy can force him to accelerate the pullout, which he has promised will begin next month.

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