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I'm looking forward to hearing what the President has to say tonight. It's troubling that it took so long to get to this point- and it will take a lot longer to actually get all those bodies in country. However, it seems as though they are doing what needs to be done. Now there needs to be a pretty aggressive leadership & selling strategy to the US public because clearly much of the country (and especially much of the President's own party) is skittish about this commitment. Subjecting this to the steady drip of continous calls for "reassessment" every time there are more casualties will cut the heart out of the effort and encourage the enemy at the same time. They need to make the decision and then stick with it regardless of the oped pieces to come- let's hope that is what's in the cards.
I'm looking forward to hearing what the President has to say tonight. It's troubling that it took so long to get to this point- and it will take a lot longer to actually get all those bodies in country. However, it seems as though they are doing what needs to be done. Now there needs to be a pretty aggressive leadership & selling strategy to the US public because clearly much of the country (and especially much of the President's own party) is skittish about this commitment. Subjecting this to the steady drip of continous calls for "reassessment" every time there are more casualties will cut the heart out of the effort and encourage the enemy at the same time. They need to make the decision and then stick with it regardless of the oped pieces to come- let's hope that is what's in the cards.
[/QUOTE][QUOTE]President Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan. ...
The president also plans to ask NATO and other partners in an international coalition to contribute 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, officials said. The combined U.S. and NATO deployments would nearly reach the 40,000 requested last summer by U.S. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the coalition commander in Afghanistan, as part of an intensified counterinsurgency strategy