Thread: Extraordinary: U.S Ambassador Eikenberry cables Obama cautioning against troop increase.

http://washingtonindependent.com/67521/inside-this-morn... RETRACTED Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled “Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry, ‘Beef’ With McChrystal.” My original source for the post stands by the account provided. The individual, a National Security Council staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity, has provided truthful and verified...

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It is not a good sign that Karzai has become defiant in defending his corrupt government. That might be why the Eikenberry cable was leaked. That cable is devastating in its impact on many levels. One level is that if Karzai now makes the major changes that have to be made and kicks his brother out, the cable will be used as proof that he is a puppet with the US pulling the strings. Karzai was already viewed as a US puppet, but might...

He is the leader of Afghanistan, and we are not out to "own" Afghanistan. I agree with a need for open government,and no corruption and even close monitoring of his brother, but I can see where-if this account is true-Karzai is uncomfortable being forced into these choices and will not go along. It makes him look like a patsy to the US instead of the leader he is suppose to be in the eyes of his people.

But I have to admire his strategic skills!

Despite the dissatisfaction with Eikenberry’s apparent leak, according to the staffer, Obama “demanded” an exit strategy for the war