07/29/2014
https://www.congress.gov...
"The AP3 is fulfilling its intent of providing security at the local level with forces recruited from the same communities they serve."
"We owe it to the American public that we maximize the chances of that not happening again."
"President Karzai said that his country would not have the resources to pay for its own security for another 15 to 20 years and would remain dependent on American and NATO financial aid until then."
"We will not repeat the mistakes of 1989, when we abandoned the country only to see it descend into civil war and then into Taliban hands."