Richard Holbrooke: “I don't think that we have been candid enough with the American people about the commitment that we're going to have to…”

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

What happened in 1989, when the Soviets left and the world, led by the United States, just turned its back on Afghanistan... is a lesson of history we cannot afford to repeat.

You've got to end this war in Afghanistan.

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.