WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday he thinks that 10,000 U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan after 2014, when President Barack Obama wants to withdraw most combat troops. McConnell has just finished a visit to Afghanistan with a small group of his fellow Republican senators, his seventh trip there in the past decade. "I think we're going to need a minimum of about 10,000 troops here to provide adequate training and counterterrorism in the post-2014 period. ...
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January 14th, 2013
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