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Article: After Iraq, Petraeus faces maybe even tougher job
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- October 31, 2008
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Gen. David Petraeus knows Iraq, and he is learning Afghanistan. The biggest test facing the four-star general as he takes charge of the U.S. Central Command, however, probably is Pakistan: threatened with financial ruin, torn by an Islamic extremist insurgency and armed with nuclear weapons.
Although most of the troops under his command are in Iraq or Afghanistan, Petraeus plans to visit Pakistan on his first trip after being sworn in Friday as the Central Command chief. Pakistan's leaders are struggling to balance their own domestic pressures with Washington's demands that they do much more to stamp out Taliban and al-Qaida havens in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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