Afghan War To Loom Large For Obama

From the L.A. Times:

As Western military commanders struggle to find a winning strategy, the Taliban makes gains and ordinary Afghans feel less secure.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan -- President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a war in Afghanistan that is certain to play a central role in his presidency, a conflict whose cost in blood and money is escalating even as many Afghans speak of a growing sense of peril in their daily lives.

Seven years on, Western military commanders are saying aloud what most were unwilling to acknowledge publicly even a few months ago: that they are struggling as never before to find a winning strategy against an insurgency that has amply proved its determination and durability.

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