rssBiden to Push NATO on Afghanistan
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 at 4:48 pm
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From a White House press release:
Vice President Biden will travel to Brussels, Belgium next week to meet with the North Atlantic Council, the principal forum for NATO’s 26 member states. The purpose of his trip is to consult with allies on Afghanistan and Pakistan and to ensure that their views help inform the strategic review ordered by President Obama. The Vice President also will meet with NATO’s Secretary General, with senior leaders of the European Union and with officials of the Belgian government.
Whether NATO countries believe, like Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, that Afghanistan is an American preoccupation and not a core NATO interest is something Joe Biden will literally find out.
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[...] As for Afghanistan, we’re now rolling in some supplies via Russia thanks to rising instability in Pakistan. And Rep. John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the House subcommittee that funds the military, said Afghanistan poses a massive challenge that would take some 600,000 troops to fully tame. Militants appear to be demonstrating a new unity. The US now has 38,000 troops with an additional 17,000 to arrive this year. About 18,000 allied troops are also in Afghanistan, whose president is pushing for spring elections despite a chorus of criticism from around the world. Perhaps Vice President Joe Biden can convince our allies to send in more troops? [...]
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