If NATO were to allow Afghanistan to fall under Taliban rule again, the country would become a “black hole for terrorism training”, the alliance’s Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said, according to The Daily Telegraph on Friday. | “I am absolutely convinced that if we allowed Afghanistan to fall back into Taliban rule it would become a failed state again and a black hole for terrorism training.” |
Scheffer said, however, that NATO could do better in Afghanistan if it had more forces, and said he was doing everything he could to get commitments for more troops. “If you ask me, Secretary General, are you entirely happy and satisfied with the forces at the moment? I say no, we should and could do more. Some of our allies can and should do more.”