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REGION: Asia-Pacific
TOPIC: Military
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UPDATE Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:05 PM ET    

Obama Meets With Top Pentagon Brass on Way Forward in Afghanistan

For the first time since President Barack Obama kicked off a formal review of his Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy in late September, he met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday to help determine the way forward.
President Barack Obama

According to Washington Post Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe, the military leadership is united in sending more troops to Afghanistan. But, Jaffe says in this Reporter's Podcast, both the Obama administration and the military do not want any one general to be the lone voice articulating the war policy.

Hear his conversation with NewsHour deputy senior producer of foreign affairs Daniel Sagalyn:

View more Afghan conversations:

Matthew Hoh, former State Department official who resigned over Afghan policy

Marc Sageman, former CIA operative

Rory Stewart, author who spent two years walking across Afghanistan

Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer and author

Ashraf Ghani, former Afghan finance minister and presidential candidate


-- By Daniel Sagalyn, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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Oct. 30, 2009
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