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I think it will take many, many years, and it will not only be dealing with the taliban, which of course is the headlines, but all of the other issues they have to address. That is much more important as a comprehensive matter i know the president is dedicated to, the chief executive is dedicated to. You get those indications from pakistan as well. While the trust may not be there to the extent that we would like, you can build momentum. So, you get get to the end goal. Two more rounds of questions and i will ask that each person only ask one question. I will start with the word row the two ge...

As one of those District Centers is taken over within hours the Afghan Security forces are taking it back. They have the ability now, the capability to react much quicker, to move forces all around the country to go back and take over those District Centers. I think thats a sign of progress as they move forward. Again, they have technology, they have the people they have the training. I think the difference this fighting season is getting the right leadership in place, holding the leaders accountable for the welfare of soldiers and police. And then building the moral of the folk as they contin...

And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a co...

Security forces at the time they were trying to focus on another area that i think over time in the leadership and having a Corps Commander we went without one for about two and a half months so there was a little bit of a timeframe that they didnt have the right leadership they need it and once they moved the commander by the name of the Major General who was in town in the south they moved to the north when north when he got an opportunity to be on the ground and i think he made a difference in the north. But again we have seen fighting over afghanistan. He talked about the south end of the ...

Think we could have gotten a more diverse group. Not in terms of their interest, they all share that, but in terms of the wealth of experience we have both on the academic side and in policy from the people that we have on the stage today. I think their full bios are in your programs, but i will briefly introduce them in a minute. You know, often the beginning of any administration the first few months are very formative months in terms of the shape and the tenor, the relationships that emerge between a new head of state and all of its regular partners, all of its countries. In this particular...