ARTICLE: U.S. counterterrorism efforts set to expand in Afghanistan, By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, December 10, 2009

As we saw with the Iraq surge, this is an unstated part of the program (led then by McChrystal himself, and quite successfully so).

Sensible stuff that was always going to be so, but let's nonetheless bow in the direction of the almighty Biden.