Re: "US general in Afghanistan: Troops may stay past 2014"
The Iraq Status of Forces Agreement signed in 2008 set December 31, 2011 as the deadline for all troops to leave Iraq.
I'm not sure there was a real deadline for Afghanistan, and probably shouldn't be one. At least not a formally announced one. Publicly declaring a "deadline" on a war would likely have been considered nuts by any military leader over the past two thousand years.