organizations. the taliban has been focused on returning to power in kabul. the fact that weave drawn down our forces and drawn our forces back into garrison doesn t change the taliban s fundamental interests here. so i ask you, can the new afghan government and the afghan military fend off a more aggressive taliban? well, if they re in a better position to do so now than they were two or three or four years ago. one of things that this administration has done more or less effectively has been getting the security forces more organized, more professional, more proficient. the difficulty is that, conditions on the ground in afghanistan are not going to be set by u.s. policy is or what u.s. decision makers do. it s really going to be set by what afghans do in their own communities. one of the difficulties we ve had over the last decade has been this top-down approach to security in afghanistan, which
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