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Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase
Senate Democrats are signaling that any push by the White House for more troops in Afghanistan probably will run into resistance
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the U.S. must focus more on building Afghan security forces. That view was endorsed by Sen. Jack Reed, who is also on the committee and spent two days in Afghanistan this past week with Levin, D-Mich.
Their unease follows a NATO airstrike early Friday on hijacked fuel tankers that killed as many as 70 people.
The alliance's top commander in Afghanistan said Saturday that local villagers were among those wounded. It is not clear how many of the dead were militants and how many were villagers who rushed to siphon fuel from the stolen trucks.