The Western Muslim

After 92 days of slow and at times agonised debate over how to prosecute the war in Afghanistan, President Obama is suddenly a man in a hurry: he now wants 30,000 US troops to hit the ground within the next six months, an enormous logistical and financial challenge.
In the defining speech of his young presidency, Mr Obama was preparing to tell the American people tonight that he has ordered tens of thousands of US reinforcements to Afghanistan to take on the Taleban, secure the country and hand it back to its own security forces within three years.

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