The test will be whether Pakistan takes concrete actions not only to support reconciliation, but to reduce the ability of the Taliban and the Haqqani network to plan and launch operations from Pakistan.
Cunningham highlights Pakistan's role in supporting peace efforts in Afghanistan.
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I do not think there is a strategy of attrition or withdrawal that will work in any timeframe that we would want to see, certainly.
I think that, under the circumstances, that timeline is probably too short and the rate of withdrawal is too steep.
It is overwhelmingly in the public's interest to let the people of the great state of Michigan decide this matter at the ballot box.
An orderly and legitimate constitutional political transition through Presidential elections in 2014 is critical to future Afghan stability.