"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

God is a product of human labor, but then we turn around and we say God exists independently and has value objectively.

上帝是人类劳动的产物，但我们转过身却说上帝独立地存在,并且具有客观价值。

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