Barack Obama: “We will forge a lasting friendship in which America is [Afghanistan's]…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009

We will forge a lasting friendship in which America is [Afghanistan's] partner, and never [their] patron.

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Emphasizing a partnership approach with Afghanistan, not a patron-client relationship.

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