DoD Kabul, Afghanistan - December 9, 2009 -- United States Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates talks with Kai Eide, the UN Special Representative to Afghanistan at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Secretary Gates is on his first trip back to southwest asia after U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. .Mandatory Credit: Jerry Morrison - DoD via CNP