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...will send at least two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan and use this commitment to seek greater contributions--with fewer restrictions--from NATO allies. I will focus on training Afghan security forces and supporting an Afghan judiciary. I will once and for all dismantle al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The solution in Afghanistan is not just military--it is political and economic. That is why I would also increase our nonmilitary aid by $1 billion. These resources should fund projects at the local level to impact ordinary Afghans, including the development of alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers. And we must...
...commanders in Afghanistan say they need at least three additional brigades. I will ensure they get the troops they need by asking NATO to send more and sending U.S. troops as they become available. But more than troops, we need a unified command and a nationwide civil-military campaign plan that is focused on providing security for the population. A successful counterinsurgency requires that we use all the instruments of our national power and that military and civilian leaders work together, at all levels, under a joint plan. Too often in Afghanistan, this is not happening. We need an Afghanistan...
...capital is increasingly the scene of Taliban attacks - and attendant frustration, even among the part of the populace that welcomes the stability brought by the NATO coalition. Says Ahmad Javed, 33, a shopkeeper: "I used to go to market at least once a week to buy goods for my shop, but now I hardly go to market because I am so much afraid of the suicide bombing. When I go out, I am not sure whether I return alive or not." The week before in Kabul, a taxi driver named Aimal Naheb was stuck in traffic when an explosion lifted...
...further shaken by, of all people, a bus driver, a ski-lift operator and a gym rat. On June 28 Pakistani paramilitary forces chased militants led by Mangal Bagh, who used to drive a bus, from the fringes of Peshawar, a key transit point for supplies for U.S. and NATO forces fighting the Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan. While the operation was nominally successful - Bagh and his men were driven from the area and his compound was blown up - the militant leader was back on his pirate radio station a few hours later, vowing to continue his fight...
...Karzai's government, and the NATO mission that supports it, however, are looking increasingly beleaguered in the face of a resurgent Taliban. Last month, for the first time, more coalition troops were killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq. Like the U.S. and the U.K., Bhaskar says, India has to become "more engaged with the reality of the problem" in Afghanistan. The embassy bombing shows that even nations without soldiers in Afghanistan can suffer casualties in its war. Says G. Parthsarathy, former Indian ambassador in Pakistan: "Very clearly, we are on the hit list...