The United States will reverse Taliban momentum within a year and accomplish its mission in Afghanistan, but it will be "undeniably difficult" and costly, the top U.S. commander there said on Tuesday.
General Stanley McChrystal, making his first appearance in Congress since his grim August assessment warned the mission would fail without more troops, applauded President Barack Obama's decision last week to deploy 30,000 additional forces.
"We can and will accomplish this mission," McChrystal said in prepared testimony to Congress. "By this time next year ... it will be clear to us that the insurgency has lost the momentum."
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