US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrives in Afghan capital

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday he trusts triumph in Afghanistan is as yet conceivable — not really on the combat zone but rather in encouraging a Taliban compromise with the Afghan government. 

Mattis talked in a matter of seconds before touching base in Kabul, where security concerns were high to the point that columnists going with him were not permitted to distribute stories until the point when his gathering had moved from the Kabul air terminal to the US-drove military coalition's home office. That was the main such limitation on scope of a Pentagon boss' visit in memory. 

Mattis said he would meet with President Ashraf Ghani and best US commandants. 

"We do look toward a triumph in Afghanistan," he stated, including, "Not a military triumph — the triumph will be a political compromise" with the Taliban, which has accomplished a stalemate as of late and demonstrated little enthusiasm for yielding to the Kabul government. 

Mattis, a resigned Marine general who directed U.S. 

troops in southern Afghanistan in the opening a long time of the war in 2001, said getting the Taliban to accommodate as once huge mob might be "an extension too far." So the accentuation is on attracting Taliban components piecemeal. 

He portrayed this approach as a push to "begin peeling off the individuals who are burnt out on battling," after over 16 years of war. 

The visit is Mattis' second since President Donald Trump reported last August that, in spite of his nature to haul US troops out of Afghanistan, his organization would adopt a more forceful strategy to the contention, now in its seventeenth year.