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On the foreign policy front, only NBC sent a reporter to cover President George Bush's recruitment speech to his NATO allies in Bucharest. John Yang called it "a stern message" urging European powers to dispatch reinforcements to Afghanistan. Yang told us that NATO has been in charge of the counterinsurgency since 2003 with a current force of 47,000, of which 19,000 come from the United States, the balance mostly from Great Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy--and "some cannot go where the fighting is heaviest; some cannot leave secure bases. They focus on humanitarian efforts that, Europeans say, are just as important as fighting." The United States has a further 12,000 troops in Afghanistan not part of NATO's counterinsurgency. They are "independently hunting al-Qaeda."
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