CJCS Adm. Mullen: "..situation in Afghanistan will get worse..& it will take time to turn it around because it has been headed in wrong direction.."

McClatchy's, here

"...Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the security situation in Afghanistan cannot improve until there's economic and political development in Afghanistan and the U.S. and its coalition partners have embraced a strategy that links Afghan and Pakistani issues."The trends across the board are not going in the right direction,"