Obama sending more troops

The United States will put pressure this week on its NATO allies to increase their commitments to Afghanistan. U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered in 17,000 more troops to battle a downhill insurgency. He announced the troops were needed to "stabilize a deteriorating situation." I thought he was supposed to get us out of this stupid conflict? We will need to watch very closely what he is doing overseas and make sure were not heading to another world war. The U.S. troop increase will bring U.S. numbers in Afghanistan to around 55,000. Allies from 40 other mostly NATO countries have around 30,000 in total.