Ngoại trưởng Hoa Kỳ Hillary Clinton. Hình: AP
Hôm thứ Hai, bà Clinton nói rằng một trong các chiến thuật của NATO là tiến hành các hoạt động dựa nhiều vào tin tức tình báo và nhắm vào các mục tiêu chính xác; kết quả đã gây thiệt hại “đáng kể” cho Taliban.
Bà nói rằng chiến thuật này phục vụ lợi ích tốt nhất của nhân dân Afghanistan, chính phủ Afghanistan và của binh sĩ NATO đang hợp tác với người Afghanistan để mang lại an ninh cho Afghanistan.
Cũng trong ngày thứ Hai, bộ Quốc phòng Hoa Kỳ nói rằng sở dĩ có sự bất đồng công khai giữa Tổng thống Karzai và Tướng David Petraeus, Tư lệnh các lực lượng Hoa Kỳ và NATO tại Afghanistan, vì hai ông có vai trò khác nhau và nhận thức khác nhau về cuộc chiến.
Clinton defends US Afghan war strategy after Karzai criticism
“There is no question that they are having a significant impact on the insurgent leadership and the networks that they operate,” she added.
Clinton also insisted that the operations were conducted in full partnership with the government of Afghanistan and pointed out Afghan forces were included in each operation.
On Friday, NATO’s 28 leaders would reportedly begin a two-day summit in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon to discuss handing security responsibility to Afghan forces next year.
NATO hopes for a gradual drawdown of foreign troops from the current peak of about 150,000 soldiers from more than 40 countries. US President Barack Obama had already sent an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan last year, raising the level of American troops there to almost 100,000, the report said.
Clinton however acknowledged that Washington was sensitive to concerns expressed by President Karzai, who has been increasingly outspoken about the Western mission.
Earlier, Karzai had called on the US to reduce the visibility and intensity of its military operations in the country, saying: “The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan… to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life.”
Calling for a halt to night raids, he said: “I don’t like it in any manner and the Afghan people don’t like these raids in any manner.”
[SOURCE:ANI]
Clinton defends US Afghan war strategy after Karzai criticism
“There is no question that they are having a significant impact on the insurgent leadership and the networks that they operate,” she added.
Clinton also insisted that the operations were conducted in full partnership with the government of Afghanistan and pointed out Afghan forces were included in each operation.
On Friday, NATO’s 28 leaders would reportedly begin a two-day summit in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon to discuss handing security responsibility to Afghan forces next year.
NATO hopes for a gradual drawdown of foreign troops from the current peak of about 150,000 soldiers from more than 40 countries. US President Barack Obama had already sent an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan last year, raising the level of American troops there to almost 100,000, the report said.
Clinton however acknowledged that Washington was sensitive to concerns expressed by President Karzai, who has been increasingly outspoken about the Western mission.
Earlier, Karzai had called on the US to reduce the visibility and intensity of its military operations in the country, saying: “The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan… to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life.”
Calling for a halt to night raids, he said: “I don’t like it in any manner and the Afghan people don’t like these raids in any manner.”
[SOURCE:ANI]
