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US President Barack Obama has told a military audience (the assembled spectators or listeners at an event) he will not be hurried as he considers whether to alter US strategy (a plan designed to achieve a particular long-term aim) in Afghanistan.
I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way. I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely (used for emphasis or to express agreement) necessary, Mr Obama said during a visit to Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida.
Mr Obama is debating (a formal discussion in a public meeting or legislative assembly) whether to send tens of thousands more troops to the country to curb the Taliban-led uprising.
Doubts about bolstering the US force grew after widespread (spread among a large number or over a large area) fraud marred the August 20 presidential election, raising doubt whether the US and its Nato allies had a reliable partner in the fight against the militant.
Afghan officials will hold a run-off election on November 7 between President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah after United Nations-backed auditors threw out nearly a third of the incumbent's votes, dropping him below the 50% threshold required for a first-round win in the 36-candidate field.
Matthew Hoh, who fought in Iraq and joined the US State Department after leaving the military, resign from his post as the senior US civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban stronghold. He said he believed the war was simply fuell the uprising.
"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the US's presence in Afghanistan," Mr Hoh wrote in his resignation letter, dated September 10 but published on Tuesday.
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