Obama to NATO - Help with Troops in Afghanistan!

The Times: Reports that President Obama will place pressure on NATO send more troops to Afghanistan. The could be the crunch time for UK PM Gordon Brown and his relationship with President Obama. If he wants to be seen in the line of succession from Roosevelt - Churchill, Reagan - Thatcher, Bush 43 - Blair, he has to send more troops to Afghanistan. As has been reported by CNN the US could send another ten thousand soldiers to Afghanistan at the end of the year, as the Times notes the UK could send another two thousand troops out to Afghanistan. The question that has to be asked is it the right policy, this blog has argued many times it is not but lest but that aside to discuss the politics of it, it would be good for Brown to show support for the President, Obama would see that he has the friendship and support of the UK. Thus would make the rest of Europe look bad, a plus for the UK. Thus in pure political terms Gordon Brown should send the troops, it would guarantee that Mr Brown would always get through to the President at the end of the day, the President would know that he needs Mr Brown and thus could help him later down the line. As in some nice statements before the General Election in 2010.