4,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
On March - 27 - 2009
The President has announced that the United States would send an additional 4,000 troops to aid the ISAF mission in that country. This comes on top of the 17,000 troops that are already being sent to reinforce the mission:
“The situation is increasingly perilous,” Obama said in a somber speech in which he sought to explain to Americans why he was boosting U.S. involvement in the seven-year-old war and expanding its focus to include Pakistan.
