The United States needs an exit strategy in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said, even as America expands its military, diplomatic and economic efforts against a Taliban insurgency. Photo: AFP/GETTY Barack Obama Says US Needs Afghanistan Exit Strategy -- The Telegraph
The United States needs an exit strategy in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said, even as America expands its military, diplomatic and economic efforts against a Taliban insurgency.
"There's got to be an exit strategy," Mr Obama said in an interview with the CBS "60 Minutes" programme on Sunday. "There's got to be a sense that this is not a perpetual drift."
Mr Obama's comments come as his administration prepares to roll out its new strategy for Afghanistan amid rising insurgent violence that has called into question the viability of a seven-year-old US-led effort to create a functioning democracy.
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