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Gen Petraeus said success in Afghanistan was achievable A top US general has warned that military success in Afghanistan is likely to be slower than in Iraq after the troop surge there. Testifying before the US Congress, Gen David Petraeus said, as in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan was likely to get harder before it gets easier . Gen Petraeus was speaking a week after President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more troops to ...
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11 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview that violence in Afghanistan would increase in months ahead with the arrival of tens of thousands of U.S. reinforcements, underscoring the military and political challenges facing the Obama administration's Afghan war strategy. Gen. Petraeus, head of the military's Central Command, oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said progress in Afghanistan was likely to take longer and ...
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21 hours ago ago from Good News Now
WASHINGTON -A top-ranking American warned Congress Wednesday that the military situation in Afghanistan likely will "get harder before it gets easier." Yet Gen. David Petraeus, who executed the Iraq surge in 2007, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Afghanistan is in no worse condition now than Iraq was when he arrived there to take command of U.S. forces two years ago. Petraeus also said the aims of the Taliban and the al-Qaida ...
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