US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L), U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2nd L), Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2nd R) and Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) pose for photographs at 10 Downing Street in central London ahead of the Afghanistan Conference, on January 28, 2010. Afghan President Hamid Karzai invited his Western partners on Thursday to join him in extending the hand of peace for moderate Taliban insurgents and restore peace to his nation. In a keynote speech to a major international conference in London on the future of Afghanistan, Karzai stressed the need for "Afghan leadership, Afghan ownership" of a process to end nearly eight years of conflict. AFP PHOTO/Anthony Devlin/WPA POOL (Photo credit should read Anthony Devlin/AFP via Getty Images)