Gates: NATO "Recapturing the Initiative"

Robert Gates reports  that NATO is making progress in Afghanistan:

Political and public impatience and scepticism about the mission are growing while the new Nato-led strategy has been slowing down, he notes.

Mr Gates told reporters that Nato was making progress "slowly, but steadily and sustainably".

"No-one would deny that the signs of progress are tentative at this point, that they are almost anecdotal," he said.

"But if you talk to the people that have been there a while, their view is that the situation is slowly beginning to improve, and that we are recapturing the initiative."

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