IPS notes that the US army is “considering curbing ‘family-oriented programmes,’ such as one that permits soldiers to extend their tours of duty at particular U.S. bases so their children can finish high school.”
The article observes that the plan to send more troops to Iraq indicates that things are going worse than the administration wants to admit. The article is titled “More Troops Mean More Trouble,” which I actually thought meant it would argue that the more troops we send the more things will get worse, which seems in fact to be how it’s working. For instance, there are now ten times more “rebel” attacks than there were a year ago (150 per day now). Why people fighting for their own home country count as “rebels” is another matter.
