Which of his generals will President Barack Obama listen to? Will it be his commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, who has asked for some 40,000 extra troops to reverse the recent gains of the Taliban? Or will it be one of General McChrystal’s predecessors, Karl Eikenberry, now Mr Obama’s ambassador to Afghanistan? He insists that no such reinforcement should be sent until President Hamid Karzai tackles the corruption and mismanagement that is rife in the country.
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