In an earlier post I discussed the opinions of several politicians on the troop increase to Afghanistan. Well it looks like Obama is finally going to make the announcement next week once Congress gets back from Thanksgiving break. People speculate that he will be sending 32,000 to 35,000. According to this Fox news article, "The war has worsened on his watch, and public support has dropped as U.S. combat deaths have climbed." I would like to point out that for statements like this it is necessary to put things into perspective. Under Bush's administration we deployed troops to Afghanistan then basically turned all our attention to Iraq. Of course there have been more US deaths because there are more troops fighting there! And of course the situation seems to have worsened because we didn't have ample enough troops there for the last eight years and not it's falling down on us. Sometimes it has to get worse before it gets better.

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