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(AP)
After weeks of debate over how many, if any, more American troops should be sent to Afghanistan, administration and military officials say President Obama is leaning toward sending about 34-thousand soldiers.
The idea is to split the difference between war critics who don't want to send another soldier and General Stanley McChrystal, who has requested at least 40,000 more troops and said 80,000 would be ideal.
Combat troops would be drawn from four Army brigades and one Marine brigade, and they would be joined by 7,000 support troops to man the command center in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan --so this would make it 40,000 (or 41,000, to be precise).
The troops would deploy in waves. The first of the new wave would arrive in March, and the others would follow at three-month intervals after that, meaning that all the additional troops wouldn't be in Afghanistan until the end of next year.
There are currently 67,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan, accompanied by 42,000 troops from coalition partners.
The president is not expected to make a final decision on troop levels until he consults with NATO partners at meeting on November 23 and he won't announce his decision until after an upcoming trip to Asia.
Comments
I was watching Fox News and they were saying that Obama was taking so long to send troops because he wants us to lose the war and that he wants the Taliban to win. I had not thought about that before but it makes sence, because he is from Kenya. How do we know he is not sending troops to fight FOR the Taliban?
Clayton says: I was watching Fox News and they were saying that Obama was taking so long to send troops because he wants us to lose the war and that he wants the Taliban to win. I had not thought about that before but it makes sence, because he is from Kenya. How do we know he is not sending troops to fight FOR the Taliban?
Because everyone knows he's from Mars and preparing the Earth for the eventual invasion of tri-ped creatures who will harvest humans for their own consumption until tiny microbes kill them off. Then someone will make a move called Microbe Dawn, call the microbes the Wolverines and they will save the planet from all the Martian invaders. Then, after victory, they'll deport all Americans who don't have a birth certificate and make a TV show out of that and call it "V."
Hope that clarifies things.
you both suck at life.
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