President Holding Afghanistan Meeting Tonight With McChrystal and Eikenberry

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. . . via video.




President Obama will be working late tonight: The White House just announced a national security meeting on Afghanistan, starting at 8 p.m.

It will be the ninth such meeting in recent months, as Obama decides on deploying more troops to the war now in its ninth year -- a decision to be announced in the coming weeks, Obama told reporters recently.

"At this point, it's a matter of fine tuning a strategy that we can be confident will be successful and also won't be open-ended," Obama told CBS News while in China last week.

The conference in the White House Situation room will include, by video, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Afghanistan commander whose proposed strategy would involve as many as 40,000 more U.S. troops.

It also includes, via video, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry. He has expressed skepticism about more troops. while questioning the reliability of the Afghan government.


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/11/breaking-afghanistan-meeting-tonight/1


The strategy session will involve 17 members of the administration, including Vice President Joseph Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Adviser James Jones, General Stanley McChrystal, the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, and Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aF7IMpDAfFVA&pos=8

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1. 8:00 pm today EST equals 5:30 am tomorrow in Afghanistan

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2. ten-hut!

. . . gentlemen