当涉及到服务提供方面的时候，阿富汗的毛病通常将问题归咎有缺乏外部援助或者归咎于巴基斯坦，而且通常期待外部力量给他们提供解决方案。

The Afghan state's shortcomings when it comes to service delivery are commonly blamed on a lack of external aid or on Pakistan, and the solutions are generally expected to come from outside as well.

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伊拉克和阿富汗战争中对直升机飞行员的需要很迫切，而飞行员的不足使得海外指挥官变得沮丧，他们拥有足够的飞机来完成任务，却很缺乏相应的机组人员来驾驶它们。

With high demand for helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan, this shortage is frustrating commanders abroad who have enough airframes to accomplish their missions, but lack the crews to fly them.

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太多有关阿富汗事态的辩论缺乏统计或者被选择性地挑拣出的数字所操控。

Too much of the debate about what is happening in Afghanistan is taking place in a statistical vacuum or involves the manipulation of selectively chosen figures.

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