Gates backpedals on NATO comments
January 18, 2008 – 12:29 amU.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, criticized by some for comments indicating NATO forces in southern Afghanistan are not up to par, praised them Thursday for their “valor and sacrifice,” which has caused the Taliban “significant losses.”
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