Alissa J Rubin And Dexter Filkins Nyt News Service

In late 2008, shortly after he had helped pull Iraq back from the brink of catastrophe, Gen. David H. Petraeus prepared to turn to that other American war. "I've always said that Afghanistan would be the tougher fight," General Petraeus said at the time.Now the burden falls to him, at perhaps the decisive moment in President Obama's campaign to rev...

In late 2008, shortly after he had helped pull Iraq back from the brink of catastrophe, Gen. David H. Petraeus prepared to turn to that other American war. "I've always said that Afghanistan would be the tougher fight," General Petraeus said at the time.Now the burden falls to him, at perhaps the decisive moment in President Obama's campaign to rev...