Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, has told Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi that the conflict in Afghanistan may be "spinning out of control".
Armitage, who served in the Bush administration, also said it was "a little backward" of Barack Obama, the US president, to send thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan before he completed a review of US policy on the region.
In a wide-ranging interview he began by answering a question on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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