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Published 1/13/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

With 20,000 more to be sent this year, officials differ over how best to use them: to secure the population, as was done in Iraq, or to focus on sealing the border to curb flow of militants and drugs. > Soon after Barack Obama is sworn in as president, he will face a crucial decision about the future of the war in Afghanistan: what to do with thousands of new U.S. troops that will flow into the country over the course of the year. (link)

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