A matter of perspective

Turkey has amassed 140,000 mostly combat soldiers along the northern Iraqi border to deal with an estimated 4,000 PKK militants basing themselves out of Iraq.

The US has 70,000 combat troops in all of Iraq (20 brigades?) to deal with thousands(?) of foreign fighters, tens of thousands of Sunni resistance, 40,000-60,000 Mahdi militia, tens of thousands of Badr corps, and god knows how many smaller sectarian militias, crooked government forces, and criminal gangs, all in the middle of an ongoing civil war.

The NATO Afghanistan force is somewhere around 22,000 intending to deal with all of the melange of Taleban, tribal figures, and Al Qaeda across Afghanistan into western Pakistan.

(ABCNews) The Army missed its recruiting goal for the second month in a row. June/July/August are critical months to miss because of heavy recruiting of graduating high school seniors.

(AFP) US General Dan McNeill, head of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, says he's seeing an inflow of foreign fighters into Afghanistan.