What makes me sick is their playing politics with our troops in Afghanistan. Their timing that 30,000 to get there right when the spring offensive begins. Afghanistan always flares up in the spring when the taliban crawls out of their caves. So there will be an "increase" in violence for them to justify this crap, while the American public doesn't really know that there has ALWAYS been an increase of violence that time of year.
I don't think it's playing politics in this case.
They needed the surge in Iraq to get on top of things and they did and it is down to a dull roar there now.
Michael Yon has been in Afghanistan for a couple of years and he is a very unbiased military writer who has been saying for the last three years that we needed a surge over there because we were frankly slowly losing on the ground to the Taliban.
A surge has been in the works for awhile. Bush never discusssed these things too much publically, but Obama and others knew it was in the works and I think just hopped on the coat tails with the campaign talking point involving more troops in Afghanistan.
I agree with Yon's analysis that it is long overdue.
Unfortunatly I don't think you can "win" over there without killing every man woman and child and repopulating. Personal opinion. Hope to Christ I'm wrong, but they DO need more boots on the ground to try to give the locals a leg up against the Mudj.