Come together to defeat Taliban in AfPak: US to intl community

The United States has asked the international community to come together to defeat the dangerously increasing influnce of Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan but at the same time acknowledged that this is not going to be easy."The international community needs to come together, and we are trying as are others to bring diplomatic, military, and other types of pressures on the Taliban to defeat them," the State Department Acting Spokesman, Robert Wood, told reporters at his daily press briefing."It is (defeating the Taliban) not going to be easy," Wood said, adding "it has been very difficult the last seven years." He said the Obama Administration was very clear in terms of how they were going to prioritize their efforts to defeat the Taliban and to strengthen both Afghanistan and Pakistan.Observing the Taliban as a very serious threat, he said the US is working with the governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan to do what it can to counter these violent extremists."But they have carried out horrific acts. They continue to do so," he said.