Afghanistan

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) talks with his Czech Republic counterpart Jan Kohout (2nd L) while Finland's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (2nd R) talks with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (R) at the start of a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels December 4, 2009. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was confident allies would support U.S. calls for more troops in Afghanistan, as she arrived for a NATO meeting on Friday, but acknowledged that some may not yet be ready politically to go public.