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Afghanistan
Obama To Send 30k more troops To Afghanistan but not to win
2009-01-13
President-elect Barack Obama intends to sign off on Pentagon plans to send up to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, but the incoming administration does not anticipate that the Iraq-like "surge" of forces will significantly change the direction of a conflict that has steadily deteriorated over the past seven years.

Instead, Obama's national security team expects that the new deployments, which will nearly double the current U.S. force of 32,000 (alongside an equal number of non-U.S. NATO troops), will help buy enough time for the new administration to reappraise the entire Afghanistan war effort
imagine the song, "we'll be over;we're coming over; and we won't be back until and appraisel is made"
and develop a comprehensive new strategy for what Obama has called the "central front on terror."
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