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"...........include closer cooperation with local tribal chiefs and regional warlords, using CIA agents as intermediaries and cash payments (sons of Afghanistan?)as incentives, said current and former officials who described the strategies on condition of anonymity......... concentrate U.S. and allied troops in cities, pulling out of Afghanistan's widely dispersed rural areas. At the same time, the allied forces would push ahead with plans to intensify training of Afghan troops, officials said.None of the strategies envision troop reductions, but officials said they would not require the 40,000-troop increase preferred by Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, ....... White House officials favor sending fewer than 20,000 additional troops. ...With the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan already 8 years old, advocates of a middle approach question whether the American public will support a long-term effort. "There is a growing view, a minority opinion, within the military that worries about the sustainability on the domestic front of what McChrystal is proposing," said an administration official. "A year and a half from now we could find there is not the will to sustain this McChrystal approach."
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