AMBASSADOR EIKENBERRY WARNED AGAINST SURGE

"The United States ambassador in Kabul warned his superiors... about the leadership of the Afghan government, the state of its military and the chances that a troop buildup would actually hurt the war effort by making the Karzai government too dependent on the United States.... Mr. Eikenberry, a retired Army lieutenant general who once was the top American commander in Afghanistan, repeatedly cautioned that deploying sizable American reinforcements would result in “astronomical costs” — tens of billions of dollars — and would only deepen the dependence of the Afghan government on the United States..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/asia/26strategy.html?sudsredirect=true