Obama plans more funding for Afghan war

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy will require significantly higher levels of U.S. funding for both countries, with U.S. military expenses in Afghanistan alone, currently about $2 billion a month, increasing by about 60 percent this year, Washington Post reported on Friday."The president has decided he is going to resource this war properly," said a senior administration official of the plan Obama is set to an .... Full Story