Missy Ryan and Sayed Salahuddin of Reuters report that the long-awaited review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan due tomorrow (Thursday) will report some progress despite the bloodiest year in 10 years of war, but this report comes amid mounting concern about corruption in Afghanistan and worries in Congress and among allies about how many more troops' lives and how many more billions of dollars it will take to defeat the Taliban.
On Sunday, a suicide car bomber killed six U.S. troops, including a Poway High School graduate, and two Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the latest attack that demonstrates continued vulnerability despite a buildup to almost 150,000 foreign soldiers. According to Reuters, almost 700 foreign troops have been killed in 2010, at least 477 of them Americans.
Gilles Dorronsoro, a critic of the U.S. strategy and scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Reuters:
