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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150213

This is going to be an afghan fight. Weve got to take this on. So theres a balance there i think but they absolutely do understand the sacrifices we provided and theres a difference between of his leadership we have today and a Senior Leadership in afghanistan and we were just a couple of months ago. You talked about the efforts of president ghani to reach out to the taliban and to try and begin some sort of negotiations. Can you give us any insights into how far along that is the . I would rather discuss that in a classified setting. And to what extent are the taliban and do we see signs that theyre being influenced by whats happening with isil in other parts of the middle east and the new reports that isil has begun to infiltrate taliban . The taliban and isil are like this. Have different ideologies. They want to fight each other so you do have some taliban that feel disenfranchised from the taliban because they see isis or ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Developments In Afghanistan 20150216

Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strategic patience, as our witnesses yesterday unanimously agreed. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, james cunningham, having just served in kabul and left in december, said, quote, i think that under the circumstances, the timeline is probably too short and the rate of withdrawal is too steep. Former ambassador to both iraq and afghanistan, ryan crocker, said, i hope we will take the right decisions on force levels
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