Richard Lugar actually said...

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.

I think that it's critical that we do both as we work in the coming months and years.

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