order to separate insurgents from the population. president karzai's spokesman said today it was not a criticism of this strategy, but many u.s. officials and and western officials see it as a direct criticism of this strategy. now, it comes at a time as general petraeus is trying to sell the success of the surge, not only to americans, but to the international community. and u.s. officials feel president karzai's comments are undercutting general petraeus' ability to sell the success of the surge and press for more time. there is a growing disagreement here between what the future of the surge and the future of the u.s. strategy should look like in terms of what the international community thinks it should look like and what afghan president hamid karzai thinks it should look like. jon: i know the white house and pentagon are reviewing the current surge strategy, so when karzai comes out and says something like that, what's the impact? >> reporter: well, president karzais has made comments like this before. earlier in the year he said he
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