if we have to wait for NATO to get pushed by Obama in his adminstration. I was shocked to hear that the Taliban was surging in Afghanistan and if one of the reasons is that we do not have a sufficient troop presence in Afghanistan, don't we need to do something about this situation now before Al Qaeda and the Taliban get an even stronger foothold in the country.
Petreus, Bush, and McCain need to answer the question as to where we can get the troops to fight what Petreus admitted was a graver threat in Afghanistan.
It's not just the troop levels. Our 'mission' has come in for a lot of criticism from our allies. The British know their way around the battlefield pretty well and a few months ago were making public complaints at the command level about our air-strikes and special forces hardening local opinion against the NATO mission there.
Sometimes I think we just don't do counter-insurgency warfare very well. Maybe it is too complicated for us or something. In an environment where the white hats and the black hats are not clearly obvious we seem to have a tendency to declare war on everybody.
