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Pakistan-NATO/Afghan cooperation and coordination across the border has improved dramatically in recent months and will be even more important if the U.S. raises troop levels in Afghanistan.

In Istanbul NATO's defence ministers vowed to make 40% of their forces deployable and 8% instantly deployable, a mark that only a handful can now meet.In another effort to get members to honour their commitments, NATO is to review how it raises troops for its missions.

But it was resolved: the Bush team decided to lower taxes rather than raise troop levels.

He told a Senate hearing that raising troop levels by 20,000 would have only a "temporary effect" on security.

A companion announcement from Baghdad said the decision to raise troop levels was made in connection with the interim Iraqi government at the request of Gen. George Casey, the senior military commander in Iraq.

White House officials quickly sought to clarify Mr. Bush's statement, saying that nothing the president had heard from his military commanders would suggest the need to raise troop levels.

Mr. Bush has already said that he would propose a $48 billion increase in Pentagon spending for next year alone, pumping money into building new fighter jets and high-tech munitions, raising troop pay and expanding health care benefits.

A1 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced plans to send up to 2,000 more American soldiers to Iraq to raise troop levels before a referendum on the Iraqi constitution in October.

However, as General McChrystal noted in recent Congressional testimony following President Obama's decision to raise troop levels in Afghanistan, our operations have begun to change the momentum in parts of the country — though this momentum is bound to be halting, as last week's horrific suicide bombing at a United States base made painfully clear.

But raising troop levels is the wrong place to start the discussion of how to move forward.

He initially hoped to withdraw from Afghanistan but was persuaded by advisors to raise troop levels instead.