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Defense Secretary Robert Gates was even more blunt: "If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of a Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose," Gates told Congress. "Because nobody in the world has that much time, patience or money, to be honest." (See pictures of the new offensive in Afghanistan...
...Afghanistan experts suggest that Obama needs to make that argument now, while Congress is still being patient with the Administration's AfPak policy. "We're going to need time in Afghanistan to be successful," says California Representative Buck McKeon, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Just back from a trip to Afghanistan, McKeon says his main worry is that Obama will come under pressure from his own party to speed things up: "I hope he doesn't get so much push back on the left that he waffles on giving the sufficient time to the military...
...last week's panel discussion, Holbrooke conceded that the Administration's goals can't be too far into the future. "We all feel the impatience and pressure of the American public and Congress," he said. "We need to show that all these programs have to produce results...
...third of the U.S.'s main antidrug aid program for Mexico - the three-year, $1.4 billion Mérida Initiative - focuses on repairing that nation's law-enforcement and judicial systems. A chunk of this year's Mérida installment (the second) has been held up in Congress because of Senate concerns about human-rights abuses by the Mexican military - the 40,000 soldiers Calderón has had to rely on in his offensive against the drug cartels precisely because Mexico's cops are too corrupt and ill trained to do the job. That money should be released...
...longer-term institution-building." One goal, aside from reining in police corruption, is to bridge the chaotic gaps between federal, state and local police that let Mexico's drug cartels divide and conquer the country's cops so easily. Says Agnes Schaefer, lead author of the Rand study: "Congress needs to realign the distribution of Mérida's resources if it's serious about increasing security for the U.S. in the long run vis-à-vis Mexico...