Coalition strategy in Afghanistan failing, admits US

General Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, fears that the Western fight against the Taliban is failing.

In a long-awaited review of strategy, General Stanley McChrystal compares the campaign to a bull's futile charges against a matador - with the bull getting weaker with each small "cut" that is inflicted.

His graphic analogy forms the centrepiece of a wholesale review of the way the eight-year-long war in Afghanistan has been prosecuted, which will be delivered to US Central Command on Monday. More

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