Washington, October 23: Former US Vice President Dick Cheney accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to “do what it takes to win”.
“Make no mistake. Signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries,” Mr Cheney said while accepting an award from a conservative national security group, the Centre for Security Policy.
Mr Cheney disputed remarks by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that the Bush administration had been adrift concerning the war in Afghanistan and that the Obama administration had to start from the beginning to develop a strategy for the eight-year-old war.
–Agencies