Richard Holbrooke: “HIV-AIDS was not just a health issue, but a diplomatic and in particular a security issue.”

We assess that it is on track to improve security, transparency, and accountability for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

We have ended poppy eradication, a radical change, because all we were doing by eradicating poppy seeds--poppy crops--was driving farmers--poor farmers--into the hands of the Taliban.

I share your astonishment that so little was done on this in the past, and I want to commend you and Senator Webb for continuing to push.

If somebody wants to be reintegrated or reconciled, they have to accept the constitution and they have to renounce violence.