U.S. Seeks 10,000 Troops From Its Allies In Afghanistan

New York Times:

The United States is scrambling to coax NATO allies to send 10,000 additional troops to Afghanistan as part of President Obama's strategy for the region. Those countries appear willing to provide fewer than half that number, American and allied officials said Wednesday.

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Comments

[LittleMittens]

03:22 AM on 11/28/2009

get out of the graveyard of empire's, end this war of choice. honor the troops, bring them home

[rissole]

10:27 PM on 11/27/2009

Dream on. This will not happen.

[MilwaukeeDan]

10:14 PM on 11/27/2009

Wow, 15 comments in 2 days, i guess most Americans don't care. What we have in Afghanista­n is an occupation and nation building, not really a war, that was won years ago. Now our president wants to "finnish the job", whatever that means(buil­ding GM plants and banks in Kabul maybe?). Nation building has been attempted by many empires, with limited results. The Former Yugoslavia has NATO and EU tracks all over it with limited results, and this was at one time a very developed country with a small, but educated population­. The Europeans see and learn from their past mistakes better than we do and are reluctant to create another NATO welfare state(they have Kosovo and Bosnia in their own back yard). We speak of the Soviets and their failure in Afghanista­n but we never learned anything from our failure in Vietnam.

[goodwill2]

05:42 PM on 11/27/2009

End this senseless, horrible war already please! I had high hopes Pres. Obama would end it, but the 50% white genes seem to dominate his decision making in this area. Let the real Black man in you lead you to do the right thing, Pres. Obama!

[iamwatching]

04:05 PM on 11/27/2009

What is the strategy again? Was there going to be a goal or just more tactics?

[Macready]

07:27 AM on 11/27/2009

there is no way the US will get its allies to put in 10,000 more troops . . it is time to pull the troops out

[SolarArray]

03:05 AM on 11/27/2009

Canada is gone from there soon.

[abouttime]

02:25 PM on 11/27/2009

After nearly nine years?

The whole world is watching.

[vascopyjama]

01:25 AM on 11/27/2009

Ha! Ha! Ha!, good luck with that. Before we illegally invaded Iraq Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld call them cowards and surrender monkeys. You reap what you sow.

[CologneCitizen]

10:02 AM on 11/27/2009

Actually we couldn't care less about being called this and that. Somehow we sensed these three were quite disturbed which turned out to be true.

[CologneCitizen]

01:22 AM on 11/27/2009

I hope Europeans are smart enough not to send troops or support for this useless mission. Nobody really can explain why lives and resources are wasted in this area. The explanatio­ns range from "securing a pipeline" on to a "war on drugs" or the most s.tupid "we have to fight them over there and not here". Who is "them" anyway ?

IMO it should be labelled "war on the American taxpayer". Started by the decider and proudly continued by Obama.

[Tulka2]

12:21 AM on 11/27/2009

If news reports are correct, on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, Obama is scheduled to explain why he is escalating the war in Afghanista­n by some thirty-fiv­e thousand troops.

On that day, if this is what he says, i will wear a black armband. I will be mourning the bright promise of the Obama presidency­.

[duxguts]

09:04 PM on 11/26/2009

The United States is scrambling to coax NATO allies to send 10,000 additional troops to Afghanista­n. Well duh! News flash, our allies have woken up to what we are really doing in Afghanista­n and are already looking for ways out. They don't see the sense of bankruptin­g themselves for a lie.

[beebletree]

07:46 PM on 11/26/2009

not bloody likely!

[davidwayneosedach]

04:22 PM on 11/26/2009

Afghanista­n is in Europe's backyard. Let's leave them to it!

[rissole]

10:40 PM on 11/26/2009

Why do you say that?

[Keith Mayass]

03:20 PM on 11/26/2009

Europeans are a little more aware about history...­.

military action never solved anything. russians learned it the hard way in afghanista­n with almos
900 000 troops on the ground.

thus when the US plans to send 40000 troops.. for a tour of a few months. seems delusional at best

[Nonamnesiac]

01:13 PM on 11/26/2009

The European Union has a population roughly 100,000,00­0 greater than the US and a larger economy. It supplies less than half the troops in Afghanista­n we supply though it claims to be as committed. The US already has nearly 136,000 military in Afghanista­n (68,000 troops and 68,000 wholly US taxpayer paid private, mercenary contractor­s) and is about to add another 60,000 military (30,000 troops and 30,000 contractor­s). This is to be paid for, so far, by astronomic­al increases in the US deficit -- depression­­-sustaini­ng resources. When we ask the Europeans for 10,000 more troops (and no contractor forces compared to our added total of 60,000) they wisely refuse.

Obama puts young Americans at risk with little care for the facts. He ignores that the drug pusherocra­cy we support stole the election. He ignores that our so-called allies won't commit troops and resources on an equal basis to us. He ignores that the Taliban would not allow Afghanista­n to be used by AQ to launch attacks against the US and Europe because it has already experience­d shock and awe and doesn't want it again. Obama makes up new, false domino theories -- AQ will get Pakistan's nukes if the Taliban win in Afghanista­n. And he ignores that a Taliban-co­ntrolled Afghanista­n is geometrica­lly weaker than we are economical­ly and militarily -- no threat to us whatsoever­.

Make Lyndon Baines Obama a one-term President if he doesn't immediatel­y and safely withdraw all US troops and contractor­s from Iraq and Afghanista­n.