headline....For Obama, a pivotal moment in Afghanistan

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did george bu$h* have ANY 'pivotal moments' in afghanistan or iraq? i don't recall the media reporting it?? we were either with him or the terrorists....



President Obama must decide in the coming weeks whether a greater investment of troops and resources in Afghanistan is worth the political risk if Americans do not soon perceive better results on the ground.

Obama's national security team will debate recommendations from Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for a continuation, with some adjustments, of the aggressive security and nation-building effort the administration has put in place. McChrystal has provided a range of options for expansion, each offering the possibility of a better eventual outcome.

"Whenever you have to have a debate" over how much more investment may be needed, "you're implicitly saying you're failing," said Michael O'Hanlon, senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution. "But if you're failing, how do you give people hope that you will succeed?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32729680/ns/world_news-washington_post/