Simply amazing that this story went virtually unnoticed in the US media, especially that it is extremely topical, and is a highly significant movement of troops. Our sympathies go out to all the servicemen and women whose fate it is to be sent to this far-off land in which NO foreign power has ever successfully occupied.US to bolster force in Afghanistan - AJ, 21 December 2008.
30,000 US troops to go to Afghanistan - TO, 11 December 2008.
30,000 US troops to go to Afghanistan - TO, 11 December 2008.
