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NATO Pledges 7,000 New Troops to Afghanistan
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAnders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, announced Friday that NATO will send 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to supplement the 30,000 President Obama pledged earlier this week, the New York Times reports. Rasmussen said the addition of 37,000 troops will have a "powerful effect" on the deteriorating situation in the country, and that it was important that Afghanistan not "fall back into the hands" of the Taliban. "President Obama made it clear that this is not America's war alone," Rasmussen said in a Web video urging NATO allies to commit ...
Is Obama Serious About Afghanistan?
By David Corn - Politics DailyIs President Obama serious about Afghanistan?Of course, he's serious when it comes to his goal of disrupting and destroying al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies. No doubt, he and his aides are thinking long and hard about what to do there and how to respond to the recent assessment submitted by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. (In that review, McChrystal notes that the "overall situation is deteriorating" and that the Afghan government is a major problem, but he implicitly makes the case for more troops.) On Wednesday afternoon, Obama's scheduled to ...
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