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People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

Jihad is the Afghan bling.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.