US soldiers patrol through the hills of the Sabari district ofKhost province along the Afghan-Pakistan border
US Mission In Afghanistan Tougher Than Iraq
-- Yahoo News/AFP
-- Yahoo News/AFP
KABUL (AFP) — The United States is hoping a strategy similar to the one it used to improve security in Iraq, including an influx of troops, will work in Afghanistan -- one of president-elect Barack Obama's priorities.
But US and Afghan officials say the mission will be more difficult here as Afghanistan is splintered by tribal rivalries and weakened by the existence of militant safe havens across the border in Pakistan.
"We cannot just take the tactics, techniques and procedures that worked in Iraq and employ them in Afghanistan," General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, recently told Foreign Affairs.
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