Expert Says Defeating Taliban Key to Peace

(11 September 09-RV) In Afghanistan US troops donned shorts and sneakers to run in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, as they fight a war that was born of that day but now faces waning public support. Despite recent calls for more troops to fight the Taliban, lawmakers in the Unites states as well as allies abroad are hesitant to support a troop increase. Joseph Wood is a senior fellow at the German Marshall fund of the United States...