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Top U.S. Military Admits That The Taliban 'Are Not Losing' In Afghanistan

Defense Secretary James Mattis, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman and Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford at a press briefing on the campaign to defeat ISIS at the Pentagon, May 19, 2017. Thomson Reuters

CNN: Top US military officer says Taliban 'are not losing'

(CNN)The top US military officer said Saturday that the Taliban "are not losing" in Afghanistan, and much more needs to be done to bring peace to the war-torn country.

"They are not losing right now, I think that is fair to say," Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said of the Taliban during a discussion at a security forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "We used the term stalemate a year ago and, relatively speaking, it has not changed much."

Dunford said that while there would never be a "military solution" on its own to bring peace to Afghanistan, the United States and its Nato partners are working to leverage military, political and economic pressure to convince the Taliban it is in their interest to negotiate a political solution to the crisis with the government in Kabul.

"Without going into detail here, we do believe the Taliban know that at some point they do have to reconcile," he said. "The key to success is to combine all that pressure to incentivize the Taliban" to negotiate.

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WNU Editor: Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is 100% right.

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