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Afghanistan together with carnage in Pakistan and this is sharpening President Obama’s dilemma on troop deployments while stoking political demand for swifter action. This year has seen a surge of violence in Afghanistan as an increasingly fierce Taliban stepped up operations against US and NATO forces operating in the country.

Two helicopters collided and crashed in western Afghanistan on Oct. 26 killing four US soldiers and three US civilians. And the crash of a third helicopter k ...