Richard Holbrooke: “When we met with them, they told us that Punjabi military coming into a Pashtun area are as alien as it would be if they…”

Afghanistan cannot go forward unless the international community, led by its greatest nation, the United States, continues to fulfill its commitments in the area, beyond combat troops.

The reason we consider it one of, if not the, highest strategic priority of this administration is because they directly threaten us.

You've got to end this war in Afghanistan.

We are in Afghanistan and Pakistan because of 9/11, because al-Qaeda and its allies are camped out in western Pakistan.