It would limit our ability to train, advise and assist, yes, sir. Okay. Mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Can you talk to us in general about the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan and the various groups that are involved there . I guess related to that is the conversation about reconciliation talks between the taliban and afghan government. First of all, what hopes do you have for that . Second of all, no matter what comes out of that, there will always be groups on both sides of the border that arent part of it. Whats sort of your tell us a little bit about the groups who might be involved, who might be reconcilable who we might still have to fight and how the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan factors into those negotiations . Thanks for the question. As you know, very conflicted between pakistan and afghanistan. I do try to maintain ties with pakistan. I talk to general sharif probably once a week. I try to get to pakistan once a month. We really work hard t
Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
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