U.S. wants allies’ new troops in Afghanistan by mid-2010
The United States aims to get all new troops pledged by allies into Afghanistan in the first half of 2010 and wants the Netherlands and Canada to “stay with us” despite withdrawal plans, a Pentagon official said on Monday.
U.S. allies are pledging as many as 7,000 additional forces for the eight-year-old Afghan mission and deploying them quickly would accentuate the impact of U.S. President Barack Obama’s surge of 30,000 U.S. troops.