Afghanistan

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Two of the Obama administration's key figures in the projected U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal and Karl Eikenberry, the US Ambassador to Kabul appear to be coalescing, at least in public.
Mr Eikenberry has formerly (in cables leaked in November) argued against sending more troops to Afghanistan as long as Hamid Karzai, the President 'failed to confront the corruption at its core'.
General McChrystal was said to be angered by the cables which collided directly with his view that a troop surge was the only way to prevent the return of Al Qaeda to Afghanistan, regardless of how much Karzai might cooperate with the U.S.
His insistence that 'we can and will win this mission.' makes 'the unwinneable unwinneable.'

Clouded McChrystal
ball makes it crystal; Afghan
'war's unwinneable.