"The message is if you are not going to be clean and sincere, if you are going to engage in criminal activity, if you are going to cooperate with the Taliban, we will hold you accountable."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Do we believe him in this respect, I mean an important question, do we believe him again, ? is he being sincere in this or is he using this as it were a kind of rhetoric ? with which to envelope himself?

我们相信他这番言论吗，我意指一个重要的问题，我们再次自问是否要相信他，他这么说时是否诚恳,或只是利用这类的修辞,来包裹自己？

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