The Nine Surges Of Obama's War

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Thu, 12/10/2009 - 8:29am

In his Afghan "surge" speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new "way forward in Afghanistan." He spoke of the "additional 30,000 U.S. troops" he was sending into that country over the next six months. He brought up the "roughly $30 billion" it would cost us to get them there and support them for a year.

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