08/02/2010
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"I would share that I think Senator Webb's comments about the difficulty of creating a fully functional government in Afghanistan are correct."
"I would say perhaps a brief period more than 30 years ago, for about 30 years, you could say that there was some sort of a functioning national army in Afghanistan, not previous to that and not since."
"When is the last time that Afghanistan had an actual functioning national army that could clearly be said to be in control of operations inside its own country?"
"How are we going to know when our national task is finished?"