BACK FROM A WEEK LONG TRIP TO ASIA, WHICH HE PROMOTED AS A QUEST FOR AMERICAN JOBS, PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS CHALLENGED BY HOUSE REPUBLICANS ON FRIDAY TO MAKE A FINAL DECISION ON A TROOP INCREASE TO AFGHANISTAN. TO COMPLICATE THE MATTER, AN ABC OPINION POLL LAST WEEK SUGGESTS THAT 52 PERCENT OF AMERICAN NOW THINK THAT THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN HAS NOT BEEN WORTH AND SIXTY FOUR PERCENT DOUBTED THAT PULLING OUT WOULD INCREASE THE RISK OF TERRORISM. WITH THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK STILL UNCERTAIN, THE NATION MAY BECOME LESS EAGER TO SEND ITS MEN AND WOMEN TO FIGHT IN DISTANT LANDS. YESTERDAY, IN MAPLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY PEACE ACTION HOSTED DAHR JAMAIL, AN INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST WHO SPENT EIGHT MONTHS IN IRAQ BETWEEN 2003 AND 2005 DOCUMENTING WAR CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIANS AND HAS CHRONICLED SOLDIERSâ GROWING DISILLUSION AND RESISTANCE TO FORCED RE-ENLISTMENT FOR SEVERAL EUROPEAN NEWSPAPERS AND US PROGESSIVE MEDIA OUTLETS. WBAI FRED NGUYEN WAS THERE AND FILES THIS REPORT:
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