1.0 link 240226 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/19/gates-americans-wont-acce_n_240226.html After eight years, U.S.-led forces must show progress in Afghanistan by next summer to avoid the public perception that the conflict has become unwinnable, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in a sharp critique of the war effort.

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