McChrystal Pleads for Reinforcements

Decision time Mr. President, you talked a big game about the "good" war and even came up with whole strategy designed to defeat the Taliban, now your hand picked general is pleading for help, will you listen to the generals on the ground or will the demands of your base drive your decision:

KABUL (Reuters) - The commander of Western forces in Afghanistan hand-delivered a request for more troops to U.S. and NATO commanders at a meeting in Germany, his spokesman said on Saturday.

General Stanley McChrystal gave his long-awaited request for more troops to U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Admiral James Stavridis, said spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis.

"At the end of that meeting General McChrystal did provide a copy of the force requirements to Admiral Mullen on the U.S. side and Admiral Stavridis on the NATO side," Sholtis said. McChrystal returned on Saturday from the unannounced meeting in Europe.

Considering the dramatic increase in terror threats, its clear the Afghan front is more important then ever.