Washington elaborates AfPak strategy amid calls for US troop buildup

[Hannah Bell]

The Obama administration presented a document to a closed session of the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday spelling out a US war strategy that places special emphasis on Pakistan. The secretive briefing follows signals by US military commanders that a substantial increase in the troop presence in Afghanistan is needed to counter growing opposition to the US-NATO occupation of Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama claimed Wednesday that no decision on a further buildup of the US troop deployment in Afghanistan is imminent, and that any escalation there will be preceded by a clarification of Washington’s strategy in the eight-year-old war...

Obama’s remarks came a day after Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that waging the war against the popular resistance to the US-NATO occupation would require “more forces...”

Mullen’s statement followed reports that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who Obama appointed as commander of US-NATO forces in Afghanistan, had submitted a report to the White House presenting a grim picture of the situation facing the occupation forces and is expected to submit a formal request later this month for another troop increase...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/afgh-s17.shtml

[grahamhgreen]

1. It's like the bombing of Cambodia and Laos during Vietnam - war profiteering at it's ugliest.

[HamdenRice]

2. Your source, WSWS, is a $26 million corporate cult, not unlike Rev Moon's Unification Church

so it's impossible to tell whether the story is true or not. WSWS are dedicated liars and propagandists.

I thought we established that yesterday.