Alice Wells: “Victory is a sustainable political settlement that results in a stable Afghanistan whose territory is not used to…”

How Afghans govern themselves needs to be determined by Afghans...

I think the critical point is that we do not want to leave or abandon Afghanistan at all.

We did not consider the elections free and fair, given the widespread reports of irregularities.

we are ready to help meet India's defense needs and we are seeking a very different kind of defense partnership