John McCain actually said...

in spite of recent successes, we know that this is going to be a hard fight.

Acknowledging ongoing challenges despite some progress in operations.

02/21/2010

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Yes.

In other words, we articulated we were going to get rid of Bashar Assad.

An increasingly stable and secure Afghanistan is the best way to do that.

You can't talk about Afghanistan unless Pakistan is in that equation.