Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters
travelling with him to Bogota, Colombia, on Monday that the key to ending
the problem is improving the Afghans’ own counter-intelligence capabilities.
“We’ve done every possible thing we can do,” Dempsey said.
He acknowledged the risk to US and other coalition forces as they train,
advise and mentor Afghan security forces.
“I can tell you definitively that at this point our national security
interests are such that we have to take the additional risks that this
brings,” Dempsey said in an interview aboard his Air Force C-17
aircraft.
Panetta is in Ottawa to meet with the defence ministers of Canada and Mexico,
the beginning of what U.S. officials hope will be a continuing effort to
address shared security threats, including drug trafficking, cyber breaches
and border issues.
Panetta said the three countries will talk about common challenges with a
focus on how they can improve intelligence sharing and threat assessments.
Source: AP
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