04/17/2013
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"I do sense there is a sincere effort, on behalf of our country, to end up with a bilateral agreement."
"We do not need another ungoverned space, another country like Somalia, like Yemen, like Syria."
"I think it is an agreement to agree down the road."
"We have an interest in preventing even a largely dismantled al-Qaeda from rebuilding itself within an Afghan sanctuary."