The US war in Afghanistan will be long and American forces will face defeat once they move the conflict from the air to the ground, the Taliban's top spokesman said on Monday. ''We are preparing for a long war,'' education minister and top spokesman Amir Khan Muttaqi told a news conference.
''This power that the world calls a mighty force will face fiasco,'' he said, adding that the United States still had time to revise what he called its policy of war-mongering.
''Otherwise the people of Afghanistan and America will burn in the flames of this war,'' he said, adding that US-led forces would face defeat in a ground war. ''If they have the strength and if their soldiers are not men used to a soft life, why are they not fighting face-to-face?'' he said.
Bureau Report