Civilian, Military Planners Have Different Views On New Approach To Afghanistan -- Washington Post
Two days before announcing the deployment of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Obama informed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal that he was not granting McChrystal's request to double the size of the Afghan army and police.
Cost was a factor, as were questions about whether the capacity exists to train 400,000 personnel. The president told McChrystal, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to focus for now on fielding a little more than half that number by next October.
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Afghanistan to hold parliamentary elections -- Radio Netherlands
Afghans to hold parliament vote by late May: official -- Washington Post
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President Karzai’s Inauspicious Start -- New York Times editorial
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