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January 28, 2009
The pressure is building to do something about the forgotten war in Afghanistan. There is an increase in the flow of information through the media from the American talking heads about the "deteriorating situation" in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and idea of Australia sending more troops to Afghanistan. Will the "surge" strategy" in Afghanistan under Obama represent a new start? Or will it be the continuation of old policies even though Bush's "war on terror" has been displaced by liberal internationalism?
The Predator attacks over Pakistani territory will continue and there is ta doubling of the US troop level in Afghanistan to 60,000. This is what Obama said he'd do during during the campaign. It looks like more troops in Afghanistan is to make it easier to guard threatened supply-lines, while at the same time allowing more forces to be available in an effort to curb the extension of Taliban influence in the regions and their control over opium production.
Will Washington cut Afghan President Hamid Karzai adrift in the name of regime change? Or will Kabul try to get out of Washington's stranglehold?
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If the US calls for Australia to send more troops to Afghanistan, then we need to to go to our friends and support them in their hour of need. There is no choice.
So say the little Americans like Kim Beazley.