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within days rather than weeks? the united states and its allies helped build afghanistan an army, an air force, an intelligence apparatus as well as many organs of state and they have the tools they need to hold kabul, whether they successfully hold their capital is really now up to the afghan people. do you think they can hold it for a year? i think that s going to be what i am asking about in the security briefing in the coming weeks. i want to understand the prognosis for the capital. as you said, as i ve said in the past, the ability for the central government to hold the capital city really is critical in brokering a power sharing agreement, because right now the talks in dohar are ground to a halt because the taliban of making military advances and one of the maxims of negotiating an end to a military conflict is each side wants the facts on the ground to be as advantageous as possible to the negotiating

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