Pentagon Report: Still Not Enough Troops in Afghanistan
posted by Josiah Garber on June 7, 2010
in Economics, Politics, War & Peace
After Multiple Escalations, Will Enough Ever Be Enough?
by Jason Ditz of Antiwar.com
After 15 months in office President Obama has increased the number of troops in Afghanistan by an almost impossible amount, going from 30,000 (itself the product of an end-of-term escalation by President Bush) to 86,000… with the troop level pushing 100,000 by the end of the summer.
But in what is rapidly becoming the ultimate example of a mission that grows to exceed whatever resources it is given, the Pentagon’s latest report on Afghanistan is warning that they still don’t have enough troops to cover even half of the “key districts” in the nation, let alone the rest of the country.