Gates in Kabul: dark days ahead but grounds for hope

2010/03/08 11:09:16 @Reuters: Top News

KABUL (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on a visit to Afghanistan on Monday, cautioned against over-optimism, warning of "dark days" ahead despite grounds for hope on the battlefield. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=7JEFlYP_6WI:GBWLtWkauEE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=7JEFlYP_6WI:GBWLtWkauEE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=7JEFlYP_6WI:GBWLtWkauEE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=7JEFlYP_6WI:GBWLtWkauEE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=7JEFlYP_6WI:GBWLtWkauEE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/7JEFlYP_6WI" height="1" width="1"/
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