Nouvel épisode de relations tendues... La stratégie de l'administration Obama fonctionnerait sur le terrains, mais...
""Coalition forces have made important security gains in Afghanistan and are on track for a full handoff to local forces in 2014, a Pentagon report said Friday, but safe havens in Pakistan and weak Afghan governance continue to threaten that goal.
“Pakistan continues to tolerate and abet the insurgency in Afghanistan, particularly the Haqqani network,” the semiannual report to Congress said, echoing the administration’s recent tough line with Islamabad. “Enabled by safe havens in Pakistan, the insurgency remains resilient with a notable operational capability, as reflected in isolated high-profile attacks in Kabul and sustained violence levels in eastern Afghanistan.”
The report shows that President Barack Obama’s plan “is working on the ground in Afghanistan,” a senior defense official said at a background briefing for reporters, pushing back against new poll results showing nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose the war, and 58 percent worry that it is turning into another Vietnam. The CNN/ORC International poll of 1,007 adults was conducted Oct. 14-16 and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
“We are having much more success than people realize,” the official said, noting that the poll results stem from “very widespread misperceptions about Afghanistan.”
The reaction from the Pentagon to the poll shows that the administration clearly is concerned about continued public support for its efforts through 2014 after a string of high-profile attacks by insurgents and a dramatic rise this summer in attacks originating in Pakistan.
The report notes that the safe havens from which the attacks were launched continued to pose the most serious risk to success, a feeling shared by many lawmakers. “Can the relationship [with Pakistan] be salvaged and can our strategic objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan be brought into better alignment?” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) asked Thursday at a hearing on Afghanistan. “It is hard to be optimistic. All the options on the table appear deeply unappetizing. All run the risk of being ineffectual, counterproductive, or both.”"
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