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Show Page 4 CampusNews Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 Showing respect for Veterans Day Come Work AND Play in Alaska! Now Hiring Driver-Guides for all Alaska Locations! AIRFORCE ROTC CADETS Isaac Fifield and Michael Rees, both juniors in aircraft maintenance, patrol on the Quad in honor of Veterans Day. ROTC cadets began guarding the flags set up in the middle of the Quad at 11 a.m. Tuesday and will continue to guard it for 24 hours until the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. This is done in recognition of the peace treaty signed on Armistice Day, now known as Veterans Day. CODY GOCHNOUR photo Visit us in the Salt Lake Area November 9th-13th We will be in the Salt Lake area interviewing for the 2010 season. 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Obama eyeing host of Afghan choices WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is considering four options for realigning U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Tuesday, while military officials said the choices involve several ways the president could employ additional U.S. forces next year. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama will discuss the four scenarios with his national security team on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Fort Hood, Texas, Gibbs would not offer details about those options. He insisted that Obama has not made a decision about troop deployments. Gibbs said that anybody who says Obama has made a decision “doesn’t have in all honesty the slightest idea what they’re talking about. The president’s yet to make a decision” about troop levels or other aspects of the revised U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama traveled to Killeen, Texas, Tuesday, where the president spoke at a memorial service for those killed in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the decision is pending, said the military services are developing presentations to explain how various force levels could be used in Afghanistan and how various deployment schedules could work, given recent promises to give soldiers more rest time at home. Military officials have said Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. Gibbs said Tuesday that a decision still is weeks away. He had earlier said no announcement is expected until late this month, when the president returns from an extended diplomatic trip to Asia. An Army brigade that had been training for deployment to Iraq that month may be at or near the vanguard. The brigade, based at Fort Drum in upstate New York, has been told it will not go to Iraq as planned but has been given no new mission yet. Military officials said Obama will have choices that include a phased addition of up to 40,000 forces over some six months or more next year, based on security conditions and the decisions of NATO allies. The Army would contribute the vast bulk of any new commitment, along with a large Marine Corps infusion. Both services are counting on plans for a large withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq to take place as scheduled next spring. Even so, it is not clear that large numbers of new forces could go to Afghanistan before March. Administration officials have told The Associated Press that some of the expected deployment would probably begin in January with a mission to stiffen the defense of 10 key cities and towns. Several officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been made also said Obama’s announcement will be much broader than the mathematics of troop numbers, which have dominated the U.S. debate. It soon will be three months since Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal reported to Obama that the U.S. mission was headed for failure without the addition of about 40,000 troops. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because final plans have not been disclosed, dubbed the likely troop increase as “McChrystal Light” because it would fall short of his request. They also said additional small infusions of troops could be dispatched next spring and summer. The more gradual buildup, the officials said, would allow time to construct needed housing and add equipment needed for transporting the expanded force. Besides being sent to cities and towns, the new forces would be stationed to protect important roads and other key infrastructure. As he makes his decision, Obama told ABC News that he wanted to make sure “that if we are sending additional troops that the prospects of a functioning Afghan government are enhanced, that the prospects of al-Qaida being able to attack the U.S. homeland are reduced.” Loan: Senators against national option -continued from page 1 Sharp said he has always been supportive of the state and private sector cooperation. Local issues like the two-year absence of LDS missionaries are familiar to Utah entities, he said, and the state has enjoyed a number of benefits in that the guaranteeing agency, UHEAA, is nonprofit and reapplies any surplus into scholarships and lowering interest rates. “We had the best deal in the nation,” Sharp said. “(UHEAA) provides great service. They’re terrific at it.” – b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu USU profs read at Helicon West BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS Michael Sowder and Jennifer Sinor will be reading at Helicon West at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the True Aggie Cafe, 117 North and Main. This event is free and open to campus and community. Sowder’s poetry collection “The Empty Boat” was chosen by Diane Wakoski to win the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize, and his collection “A Calendar of Crows” won the New Michigan Press Award. His critical study of Walt Whitman titled “Whitman’s Ecstatic Union” was published by Routledge Press in 2005. His poetry and essays appear frequently in journals and magazines throughout the country. Most recently, his poem “American Life in Poetry” will be featured on Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column. An associate professor at USU and poetry editor of “Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing,” he is currently working on a new collection of father-son poems, a collection of Buddhist poems and a spiritual memoir. Sinor is the author of “The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing.” Her essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Fourth Genre, Ecotone and elsewhere. Most recently, her work was nominated for a National Magazine Award and won the 2009 Utah Original Writing competition for nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at USU. |