US General: We Are Here To Stay

'US General: We Are Here To Stay', Quqnoos, 20 February 2008

EXCERPT: "It will take "a few years" to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan", the top US general in the country said yesterday. Major General David Rodriguez, head of the US-led coalition force, said the US military would stay in the country "as long as they are needed." We definitely think it will take a few years for the Afghan people and the Afghan leaders supported by the coalition forces to defeat them," he said. An insurgency led by the Taliban, who were in government between 1996 and 2001, has been growing in the past two years with a spike in suicide attacks and roadside bombings.

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