Pressure on Dutch government to stay in Afghanistan

he NATO defense ministers put pressure on the Dutch government to keep their troops in the Afghan province Uruzgan, despite a clear no from the Dutch parliament.

Read on in the two articles below and the White House debate on TPM media.

NRC- Handelsblad article | Dutch Afghanistan presence up in the air again

NYT article | NATO Defense Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort

Senator Kerry on submitting more troops to Afghanistan in an unstable political situation with Karzai and election fraud. 18 oct. 2009


Obama praises President Karzai to restart elections. 20 oct. 2009



White House spokesperson Gibbs on criticism by former vice-president Cheney on "dithering" by president Obama. 22 oct. 2009

Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, NATO, United States

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