Might do us harm. This is consistent with the overall vision we have had and we anticipated, as we were drawing down troops there were times when we might need to slow things down or fill gaps in afghan capacity. This is a reflection of that. It is a dangerous area, so part of what we are trying to balance is making sure afghans are out a there doing what they need to do. But that we are giving them a chance to succeed and that we are making sure they can conduct that our force posture in the area in terms of conducting those narrow missions that we need to conduct, we can do so relatively safely. There are still risks involved. Force protection, the ability of our embassies to operate effectively, those things all factor in. So we have to constantly reviewed these approaches. The important thing i want to emphasize is that the nature of the mission has not changed. The cessation of our combat role has not changed. Now, the 25 military and civilians killed last year, that always weighs
Interest that there should be an independent kurdistan. , we have suffered repeated genocide by being part of iraq. We are still under threat of further genocide. Oil industryur hijacked by previous regimes. The current government and the previous one have held our economy hostage. There are many benefits to the kurds, for us to become independent, as well as challenges, but what are the benefits to the United States . America, congress, the state department, friends of the United States may be need to hear more about why it is to their benefit to have a Strategic Partnership with an independent kurdistan. Ill address that briefly and then give the microphone to nancy. Theres already good security theeration between multinational coalition. We believe Security Cooperation can be deepened and become more kurdistanwhen iraqi is an independent state. Nancy talked about the establishment of a u. S. Base in kurdistan. Establishing that base. The primary goal of the u. S. In the regions coun
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