McCain disagrees with Obama on Afghanistan- Wants More than 17000 Troops

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McCain Says More U.S. Troops Needed to Prevail in Afghanistan


By Edwin Chen

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain said the U.S. will need to send additional troops to Afghanistan beyond the 17,000 that President Barack Obama has ordered. And he foresees an American military presence there for at least a decade.

Deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan, especially in the south, will require “more than a surge” of troops, he said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” scheduled to air today. “It’s going to be long and hard and tough.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVkKul0S8kMA
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Afghanistan is going to be a tough campaign because there are no sectarian tribes with whom to make alliances like in Iraq...and no basic economy (except the poppy/heroin economy) to sustain the Afghans during this effort.