Here's Tuesday's BBC headline: 'No request' for Afghan back-up

And here's today's: UK considers bigger Afghan force

An excerpt from the Thursday story:

The possibility of sending more UK troops to Afghanistan is being considered "as a matter of urgency", the defence secretary has said.

Des Browne said he had received advice on additional deployments and that he was discussing it with chiefs of staff.

The decision would be announced to the House of Commons as soon as possible, Mr Browne added.

The news comes a day after a UK soldier became the sixth in a month to die on duty in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

Helmand is immediately west of Kandahar province, which is where Canadian efforts are centred. Sounds like the Brits are in a tougher spot than our guys. We haven't had a combat death since Capt. Nichola Goddard back on May 17.

There has unquestionably been an upsurge in violence in southern and eastern Afghanistan this year, and it seems to be reaching Kabul, the capital. Kabul used to be the oasis of stability. Hard to spin that as a good thing.