BERLIN (AP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended Germany's troop deployment in Afghanistan, even as a kidnapped German was found dead there and government officials warned the country is facing a higher risk of terrorist attacks.Some 3,000 German soldiers are serving in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. Merkel's government is committed to keeping them there under a series of mandates passed by parliament. But those mandates are up for renewal later this year, and opposition politicians have called on the government to withdraw the troops.
| Thus demonstrating the hollow lie of the left that they'd be committed to fighting terrorism if only it were done in a 'smarter' way. |