Push for Afghanistan troop increase continues on deadly day
On a day when 14 U.S. servicemen and drug agents were killed in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, the largest such toll in more than four years, momentum continued to build to send more troops to the war zone.
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a Washington address that he would support a decision by President Obama to "send some additional troops" provided improvements are made in Afghan ...
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Sir Christopher Meyer (UK ambasador in Washington 1997-2003) says the war is "madcap", "futile" and serves "no conceivable national interest [of the UK]." More US troops will make things even worse, at huge cost.