美国驻阿富汗最高指挥官说，从塔利班手中解放南部省份坎大哈的行动时间，将会比原计划的要长。
麦克里斯特尔将军星期四在布鲁塞尔说，军事行动将放缓步伐，以确保得到塔利班发源地居民的支持。麦克里斯特尔说，此次行动要持续数月之久，但他说“行动以正确的方式进行比速度快”，更为重要。
今年早些时候，美国在邻近的赫尔曼德省领导了将塔利班清扫出马尔贾镇的行动，然而攻势受挫，由此引发美军战略转变。
美国国防部部长盖茨警告说，随着美军向坎大哈纵深地带挺进，暴力事件将会与日俱增。但他同时也表示，行动会有所进展。
北约说，星期三，阿富汗南部发生一起炸弹爆炸事件，一名北约军人被炸死，使得自星期一以来死于激进分子袭击的北约军人数量攀升至19人。
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says efforts to secure southern Kandahar province from the Taliban will take longer than first planned.
U.S. General Stanley McChrystal said Thursday in Brussels that the military operation will move ahead more slowly to help ensure support from residents living in the birthplace of the Taliban.
McChrystal said the operation will now take months but that it is more important “we get it right than we get it fast.”
The changes follow setbacks in the U.S.-led offensive in neighboring Helmand province earlier this year, where troops worked to clear the town of Marjah of Taliban militants.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned of more violence as U.S. forces push deeper into Kandahar province but says that he expects progress.
NATO says a bomb explosion killed one of its soldiers in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, raising the number of NATO troops killed in militant attacks since Monday to 19.