U.S. needs 60,000 occupation troops in Afghanistan for at Least Three to Four Years
"This is not a temporary force uplift," McKiernan said at a Pentagon news conference. - The bulk of the initial influx of U.S. troops will go to Taliban strongholds in the ethnic Pashtun heartland of southern Afghanistan, where foreign and Afghan troops are, "at best, stalemated,"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803373_pf.html
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