Some residents had been spending more than one hundred hours a week at their hospitals.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The current level is already nearly double what the United States had in Afghanistan last year, and some officials, including Secretary Gates, have expressed reluctance to send more.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

"The financial cost is a totally separate matter, and I think that as we're starting to feel the economic pinches here at home as the president has to go and ask for more money for Afghanistan, we'll probably see some similar sorts of pushbacks to what we had in Vietnam."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09