"40,000 to 45,000"
Last reported violence was on September 22 -- and you will find no battlefield reports here today, either.
Thus is the newspaper coverage we receive here in AmeriKa. New England's largest newspaper. Pffft!
"Afghan troop request may be revised; Pentagon signals report is subject to Obama’s view" by Pauline Jelinek and Lara Jakes, Associated Press | September 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said yesterday that a request for new troops from the US commander in Afghanistan may have to be revised amid growing uncertainty inside the Obama administration over whether to escalate its commitment to the eight-year war.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the troop request from General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO commander, will be delivered by the week’s end. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates will not look to escalate the military mission in Afghanistan until President Obama and his national security team “are ready to consider it,’’ Morrell said.
Morrell also signaled that the number of troops that McChrystal will ask for - believed to be as high as 40,000 - could change after the report is received if the White House alters its Afghanistan strategy....
White House officials now are looking at sending in air strikes and special operations forces to Pakistan, where Al Qaeda leaders are believed to be hiding....
Gee, those were ONLY RUMORS a few days ago!
I'm RIGHT AGAIN, 'eh, readers?
So what's the choice?
MORE TROOPS to BUTCHER AFGHANS or MORE MISSILES to INCINERATE PAKISTANIS!?
Can't we just COME HOME because they NEVER DID ANYTHING TO US!
Operating under the original strategy would require more combat troops, more trainers for Afghan security forces, more intelligence and surveillance forces, and more helicopters and other support, officials have said in recent weeks.
Already on their way: "Al-CIA-Duh" Invades Afghanistan
A senior Republican lawmaker in Congress recently told the Associated Press that McChrystal’s troop request is expected to be as high as 40,000. The lawmaker spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue more freely. Additionally, two McChrystal advisers, Frederick W. Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War, released a report this week arguing for an additional 40,000 to 45,000 US troops to Afghanistan next year....
Families that war together.... what?
The only place I could find anyone talking about Afghanistan was HERE
