04/15/2013
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"Ten to 15 years is what you're recommending?"
"A lot of people would suggest that that is essentially the policy that we have tried so far, that we have put in almost $2 billion worth of aid, we have attached conditions on it."
"But that assumes that the Taliban is interested in a political solution."
"I simply raise it because I think we use the wrong metric when we try to understand our presence there."