RSSPetraeus predicts tough ‘slog’ in Afghan war
From: The Washington Times | December 10, 2009
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the architect of the successful troop surge in Iraq, on Wednesday predicted a potentially tougher "slog" in Afghanistan, but praised President Obama's new plan as the route to victory. The chief of U.S. Central Command told lawmakers that violence is likely to worsen, as it did in Iraq in 2007, as the last of 30,000 U.S. troops enter the country over the summer and target enemy strongholds, and as the Afghan government roots out corruption before the July 2011 start of U.S. troop withdrawals. "While certainly difficult - different, and in some ways tougher than Iraq ...
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