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In the assessment, sent to Washington last month and leaked on Monday, Army General Stanley McChrystal said failure to reverse "insurgent momentum" in the near term risked an outcome where "defeating the insurgency is no longer possible." Obama continued to hold off on troop decisions, saying he would be asking tough questions of his national security team. "We're not going to make any decisions on further troop deployments until we know what exactly is our strategy," he said in an interview on the "Late Show with David Letterman" television show, which was taped in New York on Monday. Opinion polls show Americans and their European NATO allies turning against the nearly 8-year-old war. A request for more troops faces resistance from within Obama's Democratic Party, which controls Congress, but refusing to give McChrystal what he wants would open Obama to criticism from Republicans who say he should act quickly. Democratic Senator Jim Webb said of the assessment, "We have reached a turning point in Afghanistan as to whether we are going to formally adopt nation-building as a policy." House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner said he was troubled by reports Obama was delaying action on a troop decision. "It's time for the president to clarify where he stands on the strategy he has articulated, because the longer we wait the more we put our troops at risk," said Boehner. REDACTED BY PENTAGON A copy of the 66-page assessment was obtained by The Washington Post and published on its website with some parts removed at the request of the government for security reasons. "Resources will not win this war, but under-resourcing could lose it," McChrystal wrote. "Failure to provide adequate resources also risks a longer conflict, greater casualties, higher overall costs and ultimately, a critical loss of political support. Any of these risks, in turn, are likely to result in mission failure." McChrystal, who commands more than 100,000 Western troops, two-thirds of them American, has drafted a separate request spelling out how many more he needs but has not sent it to the Pentagon, which says it is considering how he should submit it. McChrystal's spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis, said while McChrystal did not believe he could defeat Afghanistan's insurgency without more troops, he could carry out a mission with different goals if Obama ordered it. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: China open on rebalancing, to a degree: researchers Pittsburgh G20 summit Bankers pay and the need to examine strategies for withdrawing state stimulus for the global economy have dominated debate ahead of a G20 summit in Pittsburgh on September 24-25. 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