"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

Whereas Sudan's stability translates into regional peace, harmony and prosperity for which we are ultimately gathered here today."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"They have become something like people we know now, whereas before they were obscure,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21