My conservative friends say the liberals have it all wrong.

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Having spent much of the flight time in serious conversation with the Afghan ministers of foreign affairs, defense, finance, interior, education, agriculture, mining, health, and labor and social affairs, almost all of them, my friends over many years now, I can say that the United States and the Afghan governments have never been better aligned and had such seriousness of purpose in trying to reach our common objectives.

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"I have to say thank you to all supporters, my boss, my friends and my team-mates because I'd been there six years and I had a good relationship with all people there, " he insisted.

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