Why does McChrystal need 40,000 more troops?
General McChrystal : The US commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has asked for 40,000 more troops, according to reports in Washington. Assuming this number includes everything from engineering to support infrastructure, why does the top general require so many additional people? Assume the general knows and understands the situation much better than us lowly peons, are we not missing the entire point of Afghanistan? Isn't America over extending it's reach and adding a severe burden upon our country both morally and financially? Let us be honest, the war in Afghanistan has outlived it's purpose and what we are doing there now is incomprehensible. We first invaded Afghanistan for one simple reason and with one simple goal. To destabilize the Taliban/Al-Qaeda and hopefully capture Osama . We never ever intended to occupy the land, because everyone with the capacity to think understood it was impossible to do. Not only because every na...