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Rift in US war Cabinet as Obama throws out all options in debate over troop surge

November 13, 2009

The Times/UK, November 13, 2009

Soldiers, including eleven from Afghanistan, pose for a group photo with US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry
Two leaked classified cables from the US Ambassador in Kabul voicing grave concern about sending more American troops to Afghanistan have exposed open conflict inside President Obama’s national security team over his war strategy.The contents of the cables, passed to The Washington Post and The New York Times yesterday by three officials, also highlighted growing uncertainty inside the White House about how to prosecute the war, amid deep concerns over the corruption of Hamid Karzai’s Government.

 

The cables put the Ambassador, Karl Eikenberry — a retired general who in 2007 was the top military commander in Afghanistan — starkly at odds with the current ground commander, General Stanley McChrystal, who has requested an increase of at least 40,000 troops.

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