Calls Grow for Shift in Afghan Policy ; Situation Seen As Deteriorating

The Washington Times › January 31, 2008

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The Bush administration faces increasing pressure to make a major policy course correction on Afghanistan, shifting the focus from Iraq to fight a resurgent terrorist threat and build up the faltering government in Kabul.

A Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today is set to take up a string of new reports warning that the political and economic situations in Afghanistan are deteriorating amid growing strains between the United States and its NATO allies over the military mission there.

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Calls Grow for Shift in Afghan Policy ; Situation Seen As Deteriorating

"Make no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan," warns a new study by the Atlantic Council of the U.S. "Unless this reality is understood, and action is taken prompt...

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