DECLASSIFIED IN PART Authority EO 13526 Chief Records Declass DIV WHS Date SEP 2 2 20 0 snowflake 9 15 AM APRIL 17 2002 TO Doug Feith � c Paul Wolfowllz Gen Dick Myers Gen Pete Pace Doug Feith rROM Donald Rumsfeld SUBJECT AFGHANISTAN 1 J'l I rnay be impatient In fact I know I'm a bit impatient But the fact that Iran and Russia have plans for Afghanistan and we don't concerns me I keep getting an answer that the Deputies arc working on it Well I can't believe that it takes that many months to figure it out Ir this were something DoD could do alone we could get it done Apparently 1t is not something that l'equires an mteragency process Once it goes into the interagency process it sinks out of sight What do you propose we do How do we get control of the levers so that we can mtlucnce what's g01ng on' How do we decide what ought to happen and then get all the military diplomatic humanitarian threats coming through the needle-head What do we do about finding out wha J Jf 5Yrs EO 12958 14 c 2 What do we do about 1mprovmg our influence in the Sout We are never going to get the U S military out of Afghanistan unless we take care to see that there 1s somethmg going on that will provide the stah1lity that will be necessary for us to leave Dlllltazn 11-11 02 u• s X01'942 03 �CONIRllt ________