Obama Orders 30,000-troop Boost in Afghanistan

President Barack Obama will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. AP correspondent Julie Pace reports on the president's strategy for escalating the war, and eventually ending the country's military mission there. (Dec. 1)

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[chingon711]

The taliban is not going anywhere...For ever 1 you kill, 10 new recruits sign up...Stop the war, bring back the troops and rebuild our manufacturing base, and get americans back to work....They say 1 out 8 americans are on some form of goverment aid yet we are spending billions to bring peace and structure to a country that does not want us there....Heinsight is 20/20 vision of course but we cannot continue this war at the cost of american livelyhood.

[DarthKazi]

War monger.

[clint525fuller]

Lying Fucker!!

[shivrajvishnu]

At the time of campaign he won the hearts of American people by telling he will end the war soon. He will stop spending US tax payers money to hostile nations. But, now he changed his track.

This proves only one thing. Government is ruled by military. They just need war, nothing else. They would have kept the gun straight on the head of Obama and said, "if you don't send more troops, you will die like Kennedy".

Truth is so simple, but the dumb ones will never understand.

[Taospark]

Actually, it means everything to the US military. Besides, if the most invasion-prone military gung-ho President since Nixon never considered invaded Pakistan, you can bet it's a bad idea.

[USAGamingMW2]

agreed.

[USAGamingMW2]

Well If Pakistan would allow us in to find that coward the war could come to an end. Then again we could just invade the damn country like we do in other wars. Ally doesn't mean shit to the US Military.

[Taospark]

If by fucking sack, you mean the stupidity to trigger a nuclear war or ignoring the fact that Pakistan has been a US military ally for 40 years. Obama has already been ordering Predator strikes on Pakistani soil but putting ground troops in Pakistan would trigger an all-out Islamic nuclear war so kid gloves are still necessary.

[wowamonn]

He can not because the Pakistan government is also fighting the Taliban. If the US does this what would stop any country from invading another because of some porblem on its borders?

[wowamonn]

He did not, if you look at his debates on youtube he said he would pull troops from Iraq and boost troops in Afganistan.Thats what all the Presidental canidates were saying during the campaign.

[BertGriffin88]

Obama,

Remember another reasonably savvy man named LBJ. He got tied up in another pointlessly fought debacle called Viet Nam. That disaster so divided the country that a distraught LBJ couldn't bring himself to run for a second term. The Middle East is a Republican trap. Won't nobody remember McCrystal, but they'll all remember Obama. Maybe your war fighting team has figured it out & by mid-2011 the Taliban and Alquada are whipped. We've been Iraq putzing for 8years. How's that really going?

[powerd14]

whats is a W.A.S.P