In the first half of 2009, the army special forces company I was with repeatedly try to interdict Taliban.

009年的上半年，我跟随着一个特种部队,我们屡次想要阻断塔利班分子。

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We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

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President Karzai has for a very long time want to bring the Taliban into the main stream.

很长时间依赖卡尔扎伊总统,就想把塔利班分子拉回主流社会。

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and as we all know radically turned to an opposite direction and the reason that it did.

正如我们所知道的，塔利班分子变成了一股更强大的势利。

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The challenge is greater because in 2001 we had a fairly easy victory over the Taliban.

说挑战大,那是因为2001年在与塔利班的较量中，我们轻松地获胜。

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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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You have discribed the border as a safe where things the Taliban just go over there, when they are chased by the Afghan troops and Nato and then they come back then things are a little bit cooler.

您把这个边境线描写成一个关卡,当塔利班分子被阿富汗和北约军队追击时，他们就越过边界线,风声不紧时，他们又通过这个关卡回来。

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We heard yesterday here at pond in Prinston, that the Parkistani government would like us to target other people, people who are leading the Taliban troops against their government rather than the people we want targeting who was leading the fighting in Afghnastan.

昨天我在普林斯顿的一个小湖边听到有人说，巴基斯坦政府想要我们去袭击其他人，那些反对政府的塔利班分子头目,而不是我们想要针对的人,这些人领导着阿富汗的斗争。

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Well, Ameiricans has been so steadfastly disgreed although most silent on other issue What Karzai said from the very begining was that people who have not commited any war crimes, people who have not murdered people can lay down their arms pledgely.

虽然在其他问题上，美国都保持沉默,对于这件事，却是强烈反对,一开始卡尔扎伊就说,那些没有反战争罪，没有杀人的塔利班成员,可以放下武器。

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