Alice Wells: “we are ready to help meet India's defense needs and we are seeking a very different kind of defense partnership”

I think it is naive to think that we just leave Afghanistan today and everything just works itself out on its own.

I think the critical point is that we do not want to leave or abandon Afghanistan at all.

How Afghans govern themselves needs to be determined by Afghans...

I think it is very important that donors speak with one voice about the importance we attach to the values enshrined in the Constitution and particular respect for the rights of women and girls to education, to work outside the home…