Viewpoint: Obama's Afghan Problem: Not a General, but a War Plan - Time

President Obama insisted Wednesday that he was replacing the commander rather than the strategy in Afghanistan, but the mounting difficulties facing that strategy were certainly a primary driver of the internecine backstabbing that was laid bare by the Rolling Stone article that got McChrystal fired. Obama's Afghanistan War Plan: Doubts Rise About Strategy

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Ali Ahmad Jalali, former interior minister of Afghanistan - nytimes
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