Photo by Senior Airman Bethann Hunt, U.S. Air ForceFrom The Telegraph:
The Bush administration is to propose a dramatic increase in the size of the Afghan army as it seeks to drive forward the eventual withdrawal of US forces from the war-torn country.
A draft White House review of US strategy in Afghanistan, which President George W. Bush will recommend to his successor when President-Elect Barack Obama takes office, states that bolstering the best way to fight the country's increasingly deadly insurgency and pave the way for international troops to leave is to train thousands more Afghan soldiers.
The proposal, which was reported by the Associated Press, comes just two months after the US and Afghan governments agreed to increase personnel in the Afghan National Army by almost 70 per cent over six years, taking it from an earlier target of 80,000 men to 134,000.
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My Comment: looking for a cheaper way out of Afghanistan. use the Afgans themselves as fodder when combating the Taliban.
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