Christi Parsons

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LCpl John Westwood, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, negotiates the narrow ledge of a guard tower after putting the finishing touches on the U.S. and Afghanistan flags he erected at the main gate of FOB Hassanabad which Golf Company of the 2/2 calls home in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, December 1, 2009. He said after erecting the flag, "I was putting up the American flag and the Afghan flag and I felt all the honor in the world to be able to do something like that- to put up our flag in a foreign country I think was a great deal. When I was finished putting those flags up... the words couldn't... can't express the way it made me feel." (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)

Afghanistan to get 30,000 troops

Announcing a major expansion of the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the swift deployment of 30,000 troops would be enough to break the Taliban before the soldiers begin coming home in mid-2011 – a bet he is making because the U.S. cannot afford a drawn-out, costly campaign.

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