TimesCall.com - Troop surge unlikely to work in Afghanistan

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According to a recent poll from the Pew Research Center, 49 percent of Americans say the U.S. should mind its own business and let other countries take care of themselves. In 2002, only 30 percent of Americans favored such an isolationist stance. Obama also faces an uphill battle in persuading Congress to fund the troop buildup. And there’s no guarantee our NATO allies will back this effort with more troops of their own. Eight years of conflict in Afghanistan have not conclusively made the U.S., or the rest of the world, safer from the threat of terrorism. Afghanistan continues to struggle with an economy still much dependent on opium, a government fraught with corruption, the Taliban insurgency and other problems that a larger military presence likely won’t solve.