Situation In Afghanistan ... worse than the governments say it is?

[brainless 0]

Most of the articles I read about Afghanistan in recent months said that it's mostly calm there, at least those in not-too-critical newspapers and also many politicians said there's nothing to worry about in Afghanistan.
But in the last week, two newspapers wrote that some countries are going to send more soldiers to support those who are already there.
The german Spiegel bloated plans to send the german KSK [the Bundeswehr's special forces in creation; right now about 1000 soldiers] in and that a small group of them is already there on an intelligence mission and, even more interesting, that the KSK is supposed to take control of an entire sector.
Today, the british Scotsman (1) writes that there are plans to send 5500 british soldiers to support the 500 already there.
To give you an overview of how many troops are there already: Last year, the US army's paper Stars&Stripes (2) wrote that there are 17,900 US soldiers in Afghanistan and that this number will probably be kept steady.

Usually, the USA send the largest part of an international troop, so I suppose there are about 25,000 soldiers already in Afghanistan. That gives us about 25% of additional troops, if the articles in the Spiegel and the Scotsman are right. A stable situation but we still need more soldiers to control it?
ok, it might be stable but it's definitely not that way of stable our chief militarys want it to be...

(1) http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/secret-uk-troops-plan-for-afghan-crisis-1-1390424
(2) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[lp-inside 0]

I am born in Afghanistan, I'm now living in Holland

[Anndi 0]

I think the situation there could definitely be worse than the news says it is. The media, especially in North America, tend to cover things up and censor things. Plus, the government in Afghanistan might not want the whole world to know if their country isn't at peace right now. So they might not let the media get the information out, or at least not all of it. Things like that happen all the time, especially with countries that already have reputations for being bad.