In his first interview since becoming Barack Obama’s national security adviser, retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones tells Neil King of the Wall Street Journal that
“„In an interview Tuesday, the retired Marine Corps general said Mr. Obama’s campaign pledge to move as many as 10,000 U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan must mesh with a concentrated international effort to bolster government and eradicate the vast heroin trade.
“„“You can always put more troops into Afghanistan,” he said. “But if that’s all you do, you will just be prolonging the problem.”