been no grain drain. if they had agreed to a peace process, the bureaucracy had not fallen. if they had agreed to a peace process, we would have had the small middle class still staying in afghanistan and the flow of money would have continued. so, the disaster today in my country is not my guilt or the guilt of the resistance, it is the guilt of the taliban whose leaders are on the terror list of the un and the western world. so we should not forget the big picture. these people are responsible for the catastrophe and the tragedy that afghanistan is undergoing. after the august 15th taliban takeover, many countries, including the united states, cut financial assistance to afghanistan, froze afghanistan s reserves in us financial institutions, and a whole lot of other things which have contributed to the collapse of the afghan economy. the message now from agencies
to a peace process, there would have been no grain drain. if they had agreed to a peace process, the bureaucracy had not fallen. if they had agreed to a peace process, we would have had the small middle class still staying in afghanistan and the flow of money would have continued. so, the disaster today in my country is not my guilt or the guilt of the resistance, it is the guilt of the taliban whose leaders are on the terror list of the un and the western world. so we should not forget the big picture. these people are responsible for the catastrophe and the tragedy that afghanistan is undergoing. after the august 15th taliban takeover, many countries, including the united states, cut financial assistance to afghanistan, froze afg hanistan s reserves in us financial institutions, and a whole lot of other things which have contributed to the collapse of
expectations. i think mitt romney did do a good job by and large in the debates in the primaries. some uneven performances but more often than not did well. particularly well on foreign policy. i think before he gets to the debates, though, he has to do more to give people a sense and the first question that you put up, who is going to move the country in the right direction. people underand it that the president hasn t got the country going in the right direction. i mean still 30% of the people in the country believe that it is going in the right direction now. mitt romney has to do a better job of answering the second question who is going to be the one to move it in the right direction and lay out his agenda in a more forceful and bigger and broader way. there was a question in your poll that said the country is improving every day and i look forward to another four years. 50% of the respondents supportd that compared to only 43% that said the country is going down the grain drain