Regarding a troop surge in Afghanistan, U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry sent a cable to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on November 6, 2009. ” ‘I am concerned,’ he wrote, ‘that we underestimate the risks of this expansion of our mission.’ Sending additional forces, he argued, ‘will delay the day when Afghans will take over, and make it difficult, if not impossible, to bring our people home on a reasonable timetable.’ ”
– Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America, Pages 123-124