Gates: 'Severe consequences' for Afghan failure

 
ANNE FLAHERTYANNE GEARAN
Published: December 2, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of the country and "have severe consequences for the United States and the world," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday as the Obama administration set out to sell its new war strategy on Capitol Hill .

Lawmakers questioned the exit strategy, a day after Oba...


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