Reply #12: Yes, and Senator Kerry has just called for this in an editorial in the [View All]

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WSJ

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id...


Quite simply, we must change course--starting with the immediate deployment of at least 5,000 additional U.S. troops. That includes more special forces to defeat the Taliban, more civil affairs troops to bolster the promising Provisional Reconstruction Teams, more infantry to prevent Taliban infiltration from Pakistan, and more clandestine intelligence units to hunt al Qaeda on both sides of the border.