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Defend America on Monday, November 09, 2009 7:48:13 PM
Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40K More Troops
CBS Exclusive: Sources Say Force Will Grow to 100,000 - Nearly Filling Gen. McChrystal's Request; Long-Term Stay Planned
By David Martin
(CBS) Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan.
CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell
CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
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The first combat troops would not arrive until early next year and it
would be the end of 2010 before they were all there. That makes this
Afghanistan surge very different from the Iraq surge, in which 30,000
troops descended on Baghdad and the surrounding area in just five
months.
Fred Kagan, the man who helped create the surge strategy in Iraq says this:
Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute says a slow motion surge will produce slow motion results.
"If they're going to be sort of trickled in very slowly over the
course of a year than it's unlikely to have a very decisive impact in
the course of 2010," he said.
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