the afghan massacres make the american and afghan army the greatest terrorists on the globe today -their atrocities belittle what the red army did in the eighties and nature will not absolve these two terrorist states as god never forgives spillinig of innocent blood .-contemptible and cowaedly
5,000 more European troops expected for Afghan war
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, his top commander in Afghanistan, wants tens of thousands more troops to turn back the resurgent Taliban and shore up the government of President Hamid Karzai. Karl W. Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, opposes deploying more troops, arguing that they would make the Afghan government more reliant on the U.S.
Republicans in Congress have increased pressure on Obama to commit more forces to the war he inherited from President George W. Bush. The U.S. and its Afghan allies ousted the Taliban from power in 2001. But the hardline Islamist movement rebounded after the Bush administration shifted resources in 2003 to Iraq, believing Saddam Hussein held weapons of mass destruction which were never found.
The two wars have strained U.S. ground forces — another factor in Obama's deliberations.
On Friday, the Army said in Washington that a new survey found that individual soldier morale in Afghanistan was about the same as previous studies, but that "unit morale rates ... were significantly lower than in 2005 or 2007," much of it due to the stress of more combat and the effects of multiple tours to war zones here and in Iraq.
Germany's new defense minister said his country would send more than 100 extra soldiers to Afghanistan in January, joining more than 4,360 German troops already in the country.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing of the convoy Friday, the biggest attack in the capital since Oct. 28, when Taliban gunmen stormed a guest house full of U.N. workers. Eleven people died in the two-hour battle, including five U.N. staff members and the three attackers.
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