But Secretary Gates noted repeated delays in getting Czech and Polish approvals for the plan.

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You and I are to what else was going on, certainly 11 approvals sense like an extreme number. Yeah,yeah.

你和我都不知道还有什么其他事，但是很显然11个批准文件是很极端，是，是这样的。

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By our informal count, however, we and the Afghan commandoes we work with were stopped on 70 percent of our attempts because we could not achieve the requisite 11 approvals in time.

粗略估算了一下，与我们一道工作的阿富汗突击队,有70%的尝试都失败了,因为我们不能按时拿到所需的11个批准。

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In my experience, decisions moved with the process of risks, mitigation like malaises When the Taliban arrived in the village, it takes 96 hours for an army commander to obtain necessary approvals to act.

以我的经验来看，决定的执行是有一定的风险的,当塔利班分子进入到村子后，一个军队指挥官要花去96个小时来获得必要的批准才能行动。

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