McCain And Obama Briefed On The Worsening Situation In Afghanistan

Lieutenant Braden Amigo of the Third Platoon Delta company 1-26 infantry listening to an Afghan villager during a patrol in Narang district near the Pakistani border. (Rafiq Maqbool/The Associated Press)

McCain and Obama Advisers Briefed On Deteriorating Afghan War
-- International Herald Tribune

WASHINGTON: Two weeks ago, senior Bush administration officials gathered in secret with Afghanistan experts from NATO and the United Nations at an exclusive Washington club a few blocks from the White House. The group was there to deliver a grim message: the situation in Afghanistan is getting worse.

Their audience: advisers from the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama.

Over two days, according to participants in the discussions, the experts laid bare Afghanistan's most pressing issues. They sought to make clear that the next president needed to have a plan for Afghanistan before he took office on Jan. 20. Otherwise, they said, it could be too late.

With American casualties on the rise and Taliban militias gaining new strength, experts on Afghanistan say the next president will need to decide swiftly if he intends to send more troops there, because even after deployment orders are issued, it could take weeks or months for American forces to arrive.

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My Comment: So .... what are Obama's and McCain's plans for Afghanistan?