Richard Lugar actually said...

We need to make clear to the people of Pakistan that we will be full partners in their fight against extremist elements.

Thank you very much, sir.

it is a lot cheaper to maintain a certain number of Afghan forces than it is to maintain the number of United States and coalition forces re...

there is, essentially, a benefits package to work out how to, in fact, recruit and to retain more Afghans for those security forces.