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8A The Scout THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010 McChrystal, Eikenberry express confidence in Afghanistan strategy By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON — Here for Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit this week with President Barack Obama and other high-level administration officials, the top military commander and senior U.S. diplomat in Afghanistan both expressed confidence today that the U.S. strategy being employed there will succeed. “Seeing clearly the challenges in front of us, I have confidence our campaign plan will succeed,” Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, told reporters in the White House briefing room, Monday. U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, expressed similar confidence in progress taking shape. “I’ve got cautious optimism that we’re making progress right now on an array of areas that are critical to our combined success with Afghanistan,” he said. “We’re having military successes,” he added. “We’re having success in terms of working with the government on a basis of partnership to steadily improve the capacity and accountability of the government. We’re making a great success in trying to come up with ways to make progress in the economy.” Eikenberry expressed hope that this week’s sessions will reaffirm mutual commitment toward building on this success while addressing challenges yet to be confronted. “Our two governments will frankly address these challenges in the next few days, with an eye on developing common solutions and with confidence that we have now the necessary resources, the appropriate strategy and the national will to make continued progress,” he said. The top strategic priority in Afghanistan is development of Afghan national security forces that ultimately will secure the country, McChrystal told reporters. “Much work lies ahead to mature this force,” he said, “but its growth is largely on track.” Meanwhile, McChrystal called securing the southern part of Afghanistan the top operational priority, and cited additional forces flowing into Afghanistan to support Afghan efforts as key to its success. He noted operations started 10 months ago into Taliban-controlled parts of the Helmand River valley that expanded the Afghan government’s influence there. Earlier this year, more U.S. forces arrived to partner with Afghans and secure parts of central Helmand that had remained under Taliban control. Additional arriving forces will reinforce ongoing efforts to secure Kandahar in an Afghan-led operation that McChrystal said focuses on the province’s complex political and governance issues. “These dimensions See STRATEGY, Page 11A US, Afghan defense leaders agree to long-term partnership By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. and Afghan officials Tuesday agreed to explore ways to broaden and deepen defense cooperation between the two countries and establish a long-term partnership for the future, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said. Tuesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates hosted Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar and Afghan Intelligence Chief Amrullah Saleh during a 90-minute Pentagon meeting. The meeting is part of a series of discussions between U.S. and Afghan officials built around Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit here. “This is a very important week for our partnership, for our relationship,” Gates told the group at the top of the meeting. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy; Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan; and Mike Vickers, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, joined Gates and the senior Afghan officials in the meeting. Morrell said the meeting went well and there was broad agreement among the parties on the way forward in Afghanistan. “This is about, how do we build an enduring, long-term partnership with Afghanistan,” he said. Sgt. David Pooler scans the area across the Kunar River as he provides security in the Noorgal district in Afghanistan’s Konar province, May 1. This was part of a community development council meeting. Pooler is assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 503 Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173 Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Spc. Lorenzo Ware dod photo by r. d. Ward Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, talks with his guest, Afghan Minister of Defense Abdul Rahim Wardak, as they walk through a cordon of honor guards during Tuesday’s arrival ceremonies at the Pentagon. The two defense leaders, joined by Afghan Minister of the Interior Mohammed Hanif Atmar and other senior defense officials from both nations, met to examine the current situation in Afghanistan and discuss the way forward. The two countries agreed to begin a regular, high-level defense dialogue, Morrell said. Details such as how often meetings are held and who the players are, he said, are yet to be worked out, but the agreement signifies the United States’ concern for Afghanistan and its desire to remain involved with that country. “‘The relationship must be an enduring one; it is in our mutual interests to do this,’” Morrell quoted Gates as saying. The officials discussed how the relationship should evolve. Gates believes the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan must be enduring and not predicated just on the need to fight the current war. The United States, Morrell said, stands ready to continue training, equipping and advising Afghan security forces, and in assisting in counternarcotics and counterterrorism efforts long after the current conflict has been decided. The United States wants to reassure the Afghan government that it “is not going to repeat the mistakes of the late ’80s and early ’90s, when we turned our back [on Afghanistan and Pakistan] and walked away from the relationships,” Morrell said. “I think there is clearly … a trust deficit … that clearly needs to be addressed.” The group also talked about regional security and the evolving trilateral relationship among Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States. They discussed developments of the Afghan security forces. Gates noted the success the Afghan security forces have had with increasing their numbers. “Obviously, there are quality issues that need to be addressed in the long term,” Morrell said. The group also discussed the transition of security responsibility to Afghan forces. They discussed the July 2011 date that President Barack Obama has set to begin that transition. “Everybody was in agreement that transition was a process, not an event,” Morrell said. “July 2011 will be the beginning of a conditions-based process. But even as that process evolves, we will enjoy a robust military-to-military partnership well into the future.”
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