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On Tuesday, Obama will go on TV and announce he's sending another 30,000 or so troops to Afghanistan. That's three times' the estimated number of Taliban in the country. And as you see from the chart, the anti-Taliban forces already outnumber the Taliban by a bazillion to one. So, here's my big question: If we can't seem to kill this enemy with a sledgehammer, what good will an anvil do?
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David Olive is a business and current affairs columnist at the Star, which he joined in 2001 after stints at the Globe and Mail, National Post and Financial Post.
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
- George Bernard Shaw
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