Gates shores up allies in Afghan war, urges pressure on Iran

Business Week: (Bloomberg) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates returns to Washington today after a weeklong Europe tour spent shoring up coalition support for Afghanistan and calling for sustained pressure on Iran to curtail its nuclear ambitions.

During his last two stops in Rome and Paris, Gates offered praise for the contributions to the war from allies such as Italy and France. In the face of public opposition, members of the 43-nation coalition other than the U.S. almost tripled their forces in the past three years, Gates said in Paris yesterday, after France offered only 80 more military trainers for now.  Read Article

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