"Our emphasis in Canada for some time now,particularly since we extended our mission, has been the necessity of seeing the Afghan government accept and be able to handle greater responsibility for the day-to-day security of that country,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The plan was to stay for a year or two, and then go back to Canada, and I lost track of time.

本来的计划是待一两年，然后就回多伦多，但是计划打乱了。

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