i hopes he increases our counter terrorism forces so they can put more pressure on the taliban leadership. i hope we can put capacity back in to the afghan army pulled out of it and made it considerably less effective. if we can do some of that, we will make some improvement. but it's not going to be a major turn around. it's not going to be something that's going to change in six months or probably even a year. this is going to be a slow change, not a rapid turn around. because the only thing that would get you a rapid turn around, martha, is that we put u.s. fighting troops back in there side by side with the afghans and started winning some battles. but, we're not going to do that because the political capital is not there to do that. the president hasn't even seriously discussed that issue. so i think he is making the right decision to stay. and but it's going to take some time. what he is doing is he is not providing an end date. i'm not going to wrap this up in two years or four years or any time frame. that is a good thing because the taliban is saying to itself well, maybe the
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