On Sunday,Emanuel said the main question now is whether there will be a credible Afghan government to help provide security and government services, if foreign troops are able to reverse recent Taliban gains.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

This question became the main issue in the presidential election of eighteen ninety-six.

VOA: special.2010.07.01