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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 28 > Gates: No more nation-building; new goals set for Afghan war

Gates: No more nation-building; new goals set for Afghan war

By Bulletin wire reports / The Bulletin
January 28, 2009

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday outlined a complicated and at times contradictory set of goals for the U.S. presence in Afghanistan in a Capitol Hill appearance that highlighted the challenges the administration faces in devising a new U.S. strategy there.

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