Opinion: All aboard -- or discord -- on Afghanistan?

Obama says he'll start bringing troops home in July 2011; Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says the drawdown will be modest and could be postponed. Obama says we won't be doing nation-building; Army Gen. David H. Petraeus says nation-building is inescapable. Vice President Joe Biden says the strategy is not counterinsurgency; the generals insist that's exactly what they're doing. - Doyle McManus: All aboard -- or discord -- on Afghanistan? - latims

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