RSSPetraeus: Bloodshed will increase in Afghanistan
From: The Washington Times | December 9, 2009
Violence in Afghanistan is likely to worsen next summer as the last of some new 30,000 U.S. troops enter the country, Gen. David Petraeus told Congress Wednesday, but the head of the military's Central Command predicted that the situation will likely improve by next December when President Obama is set to review his new strategy. The situation is similar to what happened with the troop surge in Iraq and will be inflamed as U.S. forces target enemy strongholds and the Afghanistan government works to root out corruption in anticipation of the July 2011 start of U.S. troop withdrawals, said the ...
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