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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
You, sir, refer quite frequently and properly to the alliance and to what our allies are doing … But if one is to read the press in this country, one would believe that we were the only people out there, we were the only people making any effort, we were the only people taking any sacrifices. In fact we are, of course, a small if not a vital part of a very much larger alliance, of which the United States are making by far the greater contribution and suffering the greatest losses … We have got obligations as allies which we cannot weasel out of … Our success [in Afghanistan] is the success of the West as a whole, not simply of this country. And our contribution there goes very much more deeply than simply establishing stable governance in Afghanistan: it is establishing the success, the self-confidence of the West under a very, very heavy general threat. So, would you not agree, sir, that … so long as the Americans are there we've got to be there as well?
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