"We will deliver lasting defeat, make no doubt," Carter said, adding, "It needs to be a lasting defeat... The ways and means of terrorism changed over time and it makes sense to take account of that - that applies here, and it doesn't apply only here" in Afghanistan, he added. He did not discuss in detail the ways in which he thinks the U.S. should adapt its counterterrorism strategy.
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