http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/10/biden-tells-nato-deterior_n_173391.html
Biden said Americans view a terrorist attack in Europe "as an attack on the United States. That is not hyperbole ... So please understand that this is not a U.S.-centrist view that only if America is attacked is there a terrorist threat."
He said he came to hear ideas from the allies on how NATO can bring stability to Afghanistan.
"It is from that area that al-Qaida and its extremist allies are regenerating in conceiving new atrocities aimed at the people around the world from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to the United States, Europe and Australia," he added.
Officials said Biden did not request extra troops. Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 already there. NATO has about 25,000 non-American troops in the country and Washington's allies have been reluctant to increase their troops levels.
The top U.S. military officer in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, said Sunday that coalition forces were not winning the war in the south, which remains the center of the Taliban-led insurgency.
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