<a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/27/obamas-strategy-for-afghanistan-and-pakistan/">CSMonitor</a> wrote:
President Obama unveiled a new Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy
Friday that includes new troops — beyond the 17,000 additional US
soldiers the president has already ordered new civilian development
personnel, and new aid.
But the plan also for the first time sets benchmarks – or, as the
president preferred to call them, “metrics” – for US involvement in
both Afghanistan and Pakistan, suggesting the military engagement is
not open-ended and that both the Afghan and Pakistani governments must
deliver on particular objectives. Those include reining in corruption
for the Afghans and closing down Al Qaeda and Taliban safe havens for
the Pakistanis.
