WASHINGTON, Rajab 28, 1435, May 27, 2014, SPA -- President Barack Obama said on Wednesday in announcing a plan to leave 9,800 troops in Afghanistan in 2015 that Afghanistan will not be a perfect place and it is not up to the United States to make it one. Anticipating criticism of his decision for a near-total U.S. pullout at the end of 2016, Obama said Afghanistan security forces have shown they are capable of defending their country. "We have to recognize that Afghanistan will not be a perfect place and it is not America's responsibility to make it one," Reuters quoted Obama as saying in the White House Rose Garden. -- SPA 22:37 LOCAL TIME 19:37 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1237392