U.S. Marines attached to Foxtrot Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment fire mortars at enemy targets from Forward Operating Base Now Zad in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on Oct. 26, 2008. The Marines are assigned to a reinforced light infantry battalion. DoD photo by Lance Cpl. Chad J. Pulliam, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
KABUL (Reuters) – A U.S. proposal to send more troops to southern Afghanistan will lead to a short-term rise in violence before stability can be brought to the region, the deputy commander of NATO forces in the country said on Wednesday.
Faced with a virulent insurgency and the worst year of violence since the Taliban were toppled in 2001, the United States is sending 3,000 extra troops in January.
If President-elect Barack Obama agrees, that number could rise to 20,000 in the next 12 to 18 months.
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My Comment: This is the whole point of the surge. To have the boots on the ground to effective confront the enemy. If there is a surge and there is no increase fighting .... either the intelligence was catastrophically wrong, or the Taliban decided to disengage.
In my opinion .... there is going to be a lot of fighting this year, especially if U.S. forces are positioned away from Kabul and put into the South-East part of the country.
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