Troop surge planned for Afghanistan

[PA Democrat]

Defense officials aren't calling it a surge, but it sure looks like one. The Pentagon is poised to send more than 3,000 additional troops to Afghanistan -- all of them Marines, ABC News has learned.

The plan is a sign that things are not going well in Afghanistan. Commanders say they simply do not have enough troops to deal with the increased threat.

"We are outmanned, across the board," one senior official told ABC News.

There are currently 26,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the largest number since the start of the war.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/01/the-afghanistan.html

[unhappycamper]

1. There's only about 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan at the moment.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=259x9525

[spanone]

2. why not, why don't we just invade the world and take over....

:sarcasm:

[MessiahRp]

3. What we need to do is rotate some Iraq troops home, let them rest, and then send more to Afghanistan

I mean if we were serious about the "War on Terror" it'd be very obvious what course of action to take....

However since we are not, we will dick around in Iraq forever.

Rp