These expectations of the people will have to be met, |
These expectations of the people will have to be met. What the election does is give the Afghan people a new channel to voice their opinions and demands. |
This is too critical to just say we want victory but we want it on the cheap. |
Ultimately, you want people to believe in the system. The whole thing makes no sense if people don't believe that their vote counts. |
We have more Afghan police, more Afghan army, more American army, more international forces. I believe we will have a secure elections, |
We have to keep a force that's agile enough to back up NATO. |
What you have here is already so much better, |
When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well. |