Obama, general meet on Afghan issue

From: The Washington Times | October 3, 2009 

President Obama unexpectedly met Friday in Copenhagen with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, one day after the general spoke out publicly of his need for more troops to defeat a resurgent Taliban. The president and the general met on board Air Force One for 25 minutes at the end of Mr. Obama’s five-hour visit to Copenhagen, where he had traveled in an unsuccessful attempt to secure the 2016 Summer Olympic Games for Chicago. “The president thought the meeting was very productive, an extension of the meetings that have been had thus far as we …

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