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Government and government forces. the good news is that the afghans, even though they took losses, they fought hard, held their ground mostly and they're continuing that fight, that's different then the forces of ten years ago so in the long game they say the u.s. has to hold this ground both for afghan stability and for that counterterrorism force that americans need -- america needs to fight the terrorism groups there because there's nothing nearby. this is not like iraq. there's no kuwait, no aircraft carriers, you have to have a ground base to launch your operations from. >> nick confessor...
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