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Instance, in hand car a municipal government making connections with local tribal, you know, with the local tribal structures. that s positive. i would encourage ambassador galbraith to actually go back to afghanistan. i just got back on tuesday. go back to kandahar. go to kandahar and go to helmand. there is progress that s being made. you are seeing government established. you are seeing effective local security forces and you are seeing a change in the security dynamics. go back to afghanistan. the key is that has to survive the cyclical nature of the conflict in afghanistan. it s too soon to say if that s successful or unsuccessful. you have to wait until after the summer, after the fighting season. we ll know whether or not we have been successful in the long term in helmand and kandahar. i caution ambassador galbraith about the generalizations about everyone in the afghan government or all afghans being corrupt. ....
Committing men and women to a mission which you know cannot succeed because you have said it requires a credible partner and you know there isn t such a partner. andrew is that right from your point of view? no. leave out the moral judgments here. i mean, i think if, you know, i can make a similar argument with a rapid transition to just 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan, that would have tremendous moral consequences for the afghan people. so, i mean, let s leave that out. i think we broadly agree on u.s. interests. we broadly agree where we re going to go to. i think that the transition has to be conditions based. it has to take place in a responsible manner. i very much respect ambassador galbraith but it s interesting he s on the one hand expressing a degree of optimism about our relations with the pakistani government and pessimism about ....
Troops, $117 billion and, frankly, that is a waste of resources. and to my view, it is even immoral because you re committing men and women to a mission which you know cannot succeed because you have said it requires a credible partner and you know there isn t such a partner. andrew srks that right from your point of view? no. leave out the moral judgments here. i mean, i think if, you know, i can make a similar argument with a rapid transition to just 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan, that would have tremendous moral consequences for the afghan people. so, i mean, let s leave that out. i think we broadly agree on u.s. interests. we broadly agree where we re going to go to. i think that the transition has to be conditions based. it has to take place in a responsible manner. i very much respect ambassador galbraith but it s interesting he s on the one hand expressing a degree of optimism about the ....
With them. and i feel they re very much a credible partner. we share the same goals and aspirations. they very much want to seeir thr force forces able to take over for the security and the future of this government and what the people are going to do here i afghanistan. i m comfortable with where we arand what we re doing. i see them committed to this mission. i see them dialoguing on a daily basis on what they can do for us to provide supporfor them to take the lead and besi responsible. galbraith is a former united states abassador that it s not achievable to defeat the taliban, havch more modt jectiv e in afghanistan and rep deucehece u.s. troop presence down to 10,000 troops. what do you say to that? what i say is one of the things we have to do, we have to enable the t security forces he to take the responsibility and the lead for the security here in their country.aj ....
Government and what they re going to do for the people here in afghanistan. so i m comfortable where we are and what we re doing. i see them committed to this mission. i see them dialoguing on a daily basis, how they can help us provide support to them to enable them to take the lead and be responsible. galbraith also says it s not really achievable to defeat the taliban. have a much more modest objective in afghanistan and reduce presence down to 10,000 troops. what do you say to that? one of the things we have to do is we have to enable the afghan security force to be able to take the responsibility and the lead for the security here in their country. that s the major objective right now. especially the mission we have responsibility for. we want to help grow and specialize them so they become enduring and sufl sustaining and ....