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...What's so great about Cadbury? The world's second-largest chocolate company would give Kraft and Ferrero muscle in markets where they are weak. Hershey, meantime, already knows what it's like to team up with the Brits; it's owned the license to the Cadbury brand in the U.S. for years. Like Nestlé, it would probably rather not stand by and watch a combined Cadbury-Kraft become the most powerful chocolate maker in the galaxy. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...Taliban. Desertion rates are high - 1 in 4 soldiers trained last year, by some accounts. So are rates of drug addiction. Most important, the most effective elements of the military are dominated by ethnic Tajiks, which does little to help win support of the Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group and the one among which the insurgency is based. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan had no powerful army or strong state before the U.S. went in - nor does it have the oil wealth that allows Iraq to pay for its own armed forces. There's also the question of whether they...
Germany, whose 4,300 troops make it the third-largest contingent in the alliance, is going to sit on its decision until an international conference on Afghanistan takes place in London this January. Their public and politicians have been preoccupied since September with accusations that a government minister tried to cover up Germany’s role in calling in an air strike that resulted in the deaths of somewhere between 30 and 70 civilians. Paris also seems to be postponing a decision until next month...
...Yesterday, European NATO ministers met in Brussels to discuss the surge and whether they can be counted on to add to the 42,000 NATO troops already in Afghanistan. Rome is reportedly ready to commit 1,000 more troops in addition to the 2,750 that already there, the largest increase pledged since Obama announced the surge. Gordon Brown pledged another 500 to bring the British tally up to 9,500, the biggest commitment after America’s. Warsaw will increase its contingent from 2,000 to 2,600. Madrid will send another 200 troops to bring...
...largest Spanish paper, El Pais, framed the speech more as a plan for withdrawal than a surge proposal. The biggest Italian paper, Corriere della Sera, ran the headline “Obama: Troop Withdrawal Starting in July 2011” and a subhead that reads: “The American president announces his Afghan exit strategy...