'It's a very aggressive enemy right now,' Gen. McChrystal said in the interview last week at his office in a fortified NATO compound in Kabul. 'We've got to stop their momentum, stop their initiative. It's hard work.'
and that his forces need "to stop their momentum" and "initiative."
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This concert of nations might be institutionalized along the lines of the Proliferation Security Initiative, which aims to stop trafficking in WMD and their related materials and delivery systems.