Well, people are so angry that they basically want to die, that's why insurgent attacks are at a record high. That's what happens when the entire world decides it wants to kill you. Not really a surprise to anyone, eh? The cheapest blood in the world is spilled again.

Georgia plans to send 500 troops to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: Georgia plans to send about 500 soldiers to Afghanistan next year to bolster the NATO-led security force there, a US defence official said on Monday.

Georgia, which wants to join the NATO alliance over objections from Russia, will deploy “the equivalent of a battalion” in Afghanistan in 2010, a US defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. Close to 90,000 foreign forces, most of them Americans, are stationed in Afghanistan, fighting an increasingly bloody insurgency being waged by the Taliban and its allies.

Insurgent attacks have reached record highs in recent weeks in Afghanistan, raising concerns about security ahead of the war-torn country’s second-ever presidential elections due in two months. afp