Nov 5th, 2009 - TIME
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President Barack Obama came into office believing that President Hamid Karzai's government was a liability to the pursuit of U.S. goals in Afghanistan. On the campaign trail, Obama had identified corruption and failure to deliver services and security as reasons to doubt Karzai's ability to convince Afghans themselves that the war against the Taliban was worth fighting. Still, Obama declared Afghanistan "the good war," and bet his presidency on winning it. He could soon have regrets about hitching his own political fortunes so closely to a country on the brink of failure.
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