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Various shots of Congressional hearing attended by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Admiral Mike Mullen 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Gates, US...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington, DC - 2 December, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various shots of Congressional hearing attended by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Admiral Mike Mullen \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of much, if not most, of the country and likely a renewed civil war.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot of hearing\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We believe the insurgency has achieved a dominant influence in 11 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. To say that there is no serious threat of Afghanistan falling once again into Taliban hands ignores the audacity of even the insurgency's most public statements.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of hearing\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee\u003cbr/\u003e\"It seems to me that the large influx of US combat troops will put more US marines on street corners in Afghan villages with too few Afghan partners alongside them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of hearing\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) John McCain, Ranking Republican Member:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I support the president's decision and I think it deserves the support of all Americans both Republicans and Democrats. What I do not support and what concerns me greatly is the president's decision to set an arbitrary date to begin withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan. A date for withdrawal sends exactly the wrong message to both our friends and our enemies in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the entire region; all of whom who currently doubt whether America is committed to winning this war.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 2 December, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e10. Set-up shot of analyst Kim Holmes\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kim Holmes, Defence Policy Expert, Heritage Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we send the signal that we're out by a certain date, they're going to sit around and wait for us to leave and that actually goes precisely against the strategy of trying to shore up Karzai, President Karzai in Afghanistan, and giving the Pakistanis confidence. Because we're telling them if they don't shape up, we're out of there. Well, we just told them we're out of there, and so they don't really have as much of an incentive to shape up.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKandahar, Afghanistan - 2 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of General Stanley McChrystal, US Commander in Afghanistan \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up McChrystal\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of soldiers standing for silence\u003cbr/\u003e15.  SOUNDBITE: (English) General Stanley McChrystal, US Commander in Afghanistan:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We started with a coalition of 8 nations, there are now 43 nations that are partnered. That's more than a quarter of the world's nations.  And things are different, they are different in the effort, they are different with this fight.  And beginning with what happened this morning, with the commitment that was signalled I think we are in an inflection point.  To paraphrase Winston Churchill; I don't think this is the end, I don't even think it's the beginning of the end, but I do believe that it's the end of the beginning. And I believe as we go forward, we are going to have new resolve and new focus.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of McChrystal speaking\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of soldiers\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Stanley McChrystal, US Commander in Afghanistan: (++SOUNDBITE OVERLAID WITH VARIOUS SHOTS++)\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is not a war for profit, it's not a war for conquest and it's not a war for glory. It's a war to give people a chance and it's a war to give the Afghan people, after 30 years of war, deserve a chance for something different (sic). So the clear commitment that we demonstrate, that we demonstrate in big ways with speeches and announcements of forces but more importantly that we demonstrate every day by how we operate, by how we drive, by how we interface. We have a level of commitment that we have not had before and that will change everything.\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of French soldier listening\u003cbr/\u003eThe arduous job of selling US President Barack Obama's Afghan war strategy began on Wednesday as administration officials sought to convince Congress that failure in the South Asian country would put the US and other countries at risk.\u003cbr/\u003eObama plans to send 30-thousand more troops by next summer, bringing the American presence in Afghanistan to 100-thousand troops, and would begin their withdrawal as early as July 2011. \u003cbr/\u003eHe announced his strategy in a speech on Tuesday night after three months of careful deliberation.\u003cbr/\u003eSome of the president's Democratic allies have expressed fears that the US is shouldering too much of the military burden. \u003cbr/\u003eTop administration officials hoped to persuade lawmakers at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that there is no other option.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of much, if not most, of the country and likely a renewed civil war,\" Defence Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee. \u003cbr/\u003eThe insurgency already has gained \"dominant influence\" in 11 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said. \u003cbr/\u003eSecretary of State Hillary Clinton also appeared with Mullen and Gates before the committee.\u003cbr/\u003eCommittee chairman Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat, expressed serious misgivings about the troop escalation when the Afghan security force remains small and weak.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It seems to me that the large influx of US combat troops will put more US Marines on street corners in Afghan villages, with too few Afghan partners alongside them,\" he said in his opening remarks of the hearing.\u003cbr/\u003eDemocrats complained about Obama's escalation of the 8-year-old war after his prime-time speech on Tuesday night at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. \u003cbr/\u003eRepublicans are unhappy with his promise to withdraw troops in 18 months, but Congress appears willing, nevertheless, to approve the buildup's 30 (b) billion US dollar price tag.\u003cbr/\u003eSenator John McCain, the Republican who lost to Obama in last year's presidential election, reiterated on Wednesday that while he supports the president's build up, he believes it's a mistake to signal in advance when a troop withdrawal might begin.\u003cbr/\u003eGates said he thought the United States would be in a position by December 2010 to determine whether it could begin a withdrawal by July 2011.\u003cbr/\u003eCongress was using the high-profile hearings to express its misgivings.\u003cbr/\u003eMcCain's apprehension was shared by Kim Holmes, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also a Defence Policy Expert for the Heritage Foundation, a Washington DC-based think tank.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we send the signal that we're out by a certain date, they're going to sit around and wait for us to leave and that actually goes precisely against the strategy of trying to shore up Karzai,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile General Stanley McChrystal, the US Commander in Afghanistan, said that the US and its allies had a new clarity of mission in Afghanistan, after the decision to send in more troops.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking to US and NATO soldiers in Kandahar, McChrystal said 43 coalition countries were working together in Afghanistan, compared to only 8 nations when the war first started.\u003cbr/\u003eCiting a progress in Afghanistan, McChrystal paraphrased a statement from former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, saying, \"I don't think this is the end, I don't even think it's the beginning of the end, but I do believe that it's the end of the beginning.\" \u003cbr/\u003eMcChrystal met earlier with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, describing the Afghan leader's reaction as\"really positive.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAlso on Wednesday, NATO's chief said that European and other US allies will contribute more than 5,000 new troops to the international force in Afghanistan, declaring that the war is not America's alone.\u003cbr/\u003eStill, aside from Poland, the pledges came in small numbers from small nations. \u003cbr/\u003eThe largest contributors, Britain, France and Germany, held off on pledges of new troops, waiting for an Afghanistan conference in London planned for late January.\u003cbr/\u003eThe U.S. now has 71,000 troops in Afghanistan, while other NATO members and allies collectively have 38,000 there. 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