国际英语新闻：Obama in damage control over war leak

The House of Representatives is to vote on a 59-billion-dollar war funding measure later Tuesday that would pay for Obama's troops increase in Afghanistan. Obama urged lawmakers to "pass the necessary funding to support our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

Lisa Curtis, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, agrees with Obama's assessment that most information contained in the leak was "already known to those observing the war over the last nine years," and the exposure "should not be used to argue that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is doomed to failure."