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I Mean,you Will Have An Afghan Government. There Are Two Roads Here. One Is Obviously A Run-off Election Or A Negotiated Settlement. But What's Most Important About That Process Is That There's A Credibility And A Legitimacy To The Government At The End Of That Process. So Which Road They Choose, That's Up To Them. It Must Have - Be Legitimate And Credible In The Eyes Of The Afghan People.

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At Some Point, Deliberation Begins To Look More Like Indecisiveness Which Then Becomes A Way Of Emboldening Our Enemies And Allies And Causing Our Allies To Question Our Resolve. So We Shouldn't Let One Component Of This Determine Our National Security Here Which Depends On Providing An Afghanistan Which Denies A Safe Haven To Terrorists As Well As Stabilizing Pakistan. Those Are Our Two National Security Interests At Stake In Afghanistan.

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