U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III looks at homes and terrain surrounding Kabul, during an aerial tour on a Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, Sept. 9, 2009. It was Lynn's first trip to Southwest Asia since he was confirmed as deputy secretary. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry MorrisonPresident Obama Urged Not To Send More Troops As Public Tires Of Afghanistan war -- Times Online
On the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, leading Democrats urged President Obama to resist military requests for more combat troops to finish the task of denying al-Qaeda a safe haven in Afghanistan.
US forces should focus instead on training and expanding the Afghan Army, said Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a speech yesterday after a similar warning from Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives. “I don’t think there is a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or in Congress,” she said.
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