"I think a lot of European allies, including France, are looking to the United States to roll out a new Afghan strategy that they can more comfortably buy into, and they will be looking at whether they can up their contribution, their military contribution, their economic contribution, after they have seen that particular strategy,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Although it is easy to remember that later in the dialogue most of their contribution seems to be " of the form of "Yes Socrates, no Socrates," they seem to be rather passive interlocutors.

但很明显地,他们在稍后对话中的,绝大部份贡献似乎是反复的,“Yes，苏格拉底，“、，“No，苏格拉底“,他们是相对被动的对话者。

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I think it's very useful. It may not be immediately apparent to people in Darfur, but in the end it is a contribution towards a solution to their problem."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23