That is why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended - because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own.

这就是为什么，我们在阿富汗的军事行动不能是开放式的——因为我最想建造的，是我们自己的国家。

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Indeed, some call for a more dramatic and open-ended escalation of our war effort — one that would commit us to a nation-building project of up to a decade.

的确，有些人要求我们的军事行动升级，增加强度而且不设定期限——让我们承诺以长达十年的时间投入该国的重建。

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That's why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended — because the nation that I'm most interested in building is our own.

因此，我们在阿富汗的驻军承诺不能没有期限，因为我最关心的还是我们本国的建设。

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(Speaking) South Korean officials say that 2010 may open on bright note, with six-nation nuclear talks opening as early as January.

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It's a textile center and home to the nation's biggest open-air tobacco market.

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The likeliest scenario is that Google goes in with a partner such as T-Mobile or Sprint, both of which are already in the Google phone alliance, or it joins with Frontline Wireless, an upstart whose powerful backers, billionaire venture capitalists John Doerr and Ram Shriram, are also seeking to open the nation's airwaves.

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