Two Wars Pose Challenge For Obama: US Official

US undersecretary of Defense for policy Eric Edelman

From AFP:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — President-elect Barack Obama will face a difficult challenge in balancing the competing needs of the US military as it wages war in both Iraq and Afghanistan, a Pentagon official said on Thursday.

Obama has vowed to withdraw most combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office in January and to deploy additional US forces in Afghanistan to step up the fight against Taliban insurgents.

But US commanders in Iraq will likely be cautious about the pace of any withdrawal of forces after having managed to quell violence in the country in the past year and a half, according to Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy.

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My Comment: Laying down the groundwork for a very long engagement in Afghanistan.

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