Read more troop surge stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/895/troop-surge.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:20:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74212/in-afghanistan-debate-obama-focuses-on-exit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration’s extended ruminations on an Afghan surge aren’t really over how many troops to send in—they’re about how they’ll get those troops out. Obama’s main problem with the initial military plan was that it seemed too open ended, administration sources tell Gerald Seib of the Wall Street...http://www.newser.com/story/74212/in-afghanistan-debate-obama-focuses-on-exit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 8:15:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73843/us-ambassador-disagrees-on-afghan-troop-surge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US ambassador to Afghanistan—a former general who served there as recently as 2007—is against increasing troop levels until the Afghan government gets its act together. In classified cables ahead of President Obama’s deliberations on a surge, Karl Eikenberry cites rampant corruption and mismanagement in Hamid Karzai’s administration....http://www.newser.com/story/73843/us-ambassador-disagrees-on-afghan-troop-surge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 18:49:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73685/cbs-prez-will-grant-mcchrystal-troop-request.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama has decided to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a large and long-term increase in US forces in Afghanistan, according to CBS and AP , which cite "informed sources." The president will give the general almost all the troops he has asked for, boosting the size of the US...http://www.newser.com/story/73685/cbs-prez-will-grant-mcchrystal-troop-request.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 5:50:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73566/obama-eyes-30k-troop-surge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is zeroing in on an Afghanistan strategy that likely includes sending in some 30,000 troops, reports Reuters —short of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's requested 40,000, but far greater than war-weary Democrats may support. An additional 4,000 trainers are likely to be sent, McClatchy reports, with the...http://www.newser.com/story/73566/obama-eyes-30k-troop-surge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Nov 2009 9:18:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72743/public-backs-afghan-troop-surge-47-43.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPublic support for a troop surge in Afghanistan is surging, too, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll . Support for a troop increase edged out opposition 47% to 43%, after trailing opposition 44% to 51% last month. But 58% also support waiting until after the runoff election to make...http://www.newser.com/story/72743/public-backs-afghan-troop-surge-47-43.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 11:21:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72688/afghan-surge-gains-favor-public-sours-on-dc.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew poll numbers out today hold good news and bad for the Obama administration. Support is rising for a troop surge in Afghanistan, the NBC/ Wall Street Journal survey finds, and nearly half now favor a public option in the health-care reform measures now under consideration. The bad news: 58%...http://www.newser.com/story/72688/afghan-surge-gains-favor-public-sours-on-dc.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 18:20:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72532/pentagon-holds-secret-afghan-war-games.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, led a secret war game earlier this month to assess the Obama administration's options in Afghanistan, including a 44,000-troop surge. A team of military leaders used Gen. Stanley McChrystal's analysis to examine how Taliban insurgents and the Afghan...http://www.newser.com/story/72532/pentagon-holds-secret-afghan-war-games.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Oct 2009 6:06:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72314/more-troops-in-afghanistan-angrier-insurgents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe United States was born from a nationalist insurgency. “Given that history, you’d think we might be more sensitive to nationalism abroad,” writes Nicholas Kristof. “Yet the most systematic foreign-policy mistake we Americans have made in the post-World War II period has been to underestimate its potency.” It was true...http://www.newser.com/story/72314/more-troops-in-afghanistan-angrier-insurgents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 9:56:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72214/public-thinks-obamas-clueless-on-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen it comes to the Afghan war, Barack Obama is between a rock and a hard place politically. Only 45% of the public approves of his handling of it, down 10 percentage points from last month, according to a new Washington Post -ABC News poll, and a whopping 63% don’t...http://www.newser.com/story/72214/public-thinks-obamas-clueless-on-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 8:17:11 CDT