The Wall Street Journal a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124986154654218153.html"has plenty of details/a, including noting that U.S. commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s predecessor, Gen. David McKiernan, had a request outstanding for 10,000 more troops, and that McChrystal will probably eventually ask again for them himself.br /br /That would probably explain a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6789136.ece"a renewed round of drumbeats/a for more Western troops in Afghanistan, this one actually writing for the British outpost of the U.S. bipartisan foreign policy establishment.br /br /Meanwhile, the British have agreed with the U.S. on the alleged need a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/10/afghan-drug-traffiker-hitlist" to target Afghan drug lords/a, while the Pentagon a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/world/asia/10afghan.html "now has a hit list of them/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-1720164577440735097?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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