U. S. Army General David Petraeus says progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan will be slower than during the surge of American forces in Iraq two years ago.

美国陆军彼得雷乌斯上将说，和两年前美军向伊拉克增兵相比，打击阿富汗反叛分子的进展会较为缓慢。

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General Myers spent four years as the top U.S.military officer, starting just weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through the early successes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and ending in late 2005, just before the major outbreak of violence in Iraq and well before the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan during the last two years.

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Further, its support of the insurgency in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan continues unabated.

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