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None of us wants any more war.
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War
Want
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There are problems in the world today.
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Problem
Today
World
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To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
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Defeat
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I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.
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I Can
Risk
Seek
Mitigate
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America will honor our treaty obligations.
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Honor
Obligations
Treaty
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We need to understand what we're saying matters.
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Matter
Needs
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We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.
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Defeat
Tyranny
Oppose
Resist
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Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.
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Afghan
Civilians
Cornerstones
Missions
Cornerstone
Mission
Protecting
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The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.
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Best Things
Giving
My Family
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We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.
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Chiefs
Knows
Needs
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To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.
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World Order
Peace World Will
Oppose
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To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.
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Pursue
Enemies
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You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
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Angry
Crisis
Decision
Great Power
Powers
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I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
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Home
Numbers
Worry
Time Home Focus
Mission
Worrying
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To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.
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Abandon
Allies
Partners
Closely
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It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.
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Children
Grief
Loss
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Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
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Army
Formation
Hallmark
Military
Planning
Weakness
Armies
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One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.
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Technology
Community
Thinking
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There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.
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Afghanistan
Direct
Lines
September
Today
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The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.
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Overwhelming Desire
People
Way
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Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.
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Large Numbers
Numbers
Organization
Resilient
Al
Anywhere
Large
Qaeda
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We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.
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Als
Roots
Want
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We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.
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Afghanistan
Becoming
Facilitate
International
International Terrorism
Launching
Roots
Taliban
Terrorism
Again
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Pad
Qaeda
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Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
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Afghanistan
Constructive
Critical
Long
Long Time
Maximum
Neighbor
Time Relationship Long
Useful
Extent
Neighbors
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We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.
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Community
Long
Support
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We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.
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Afghanistan
Combination
International
International Community
Succeed
Support
Taliban
Term
Short
Ultimately
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Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.
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Desert
Done
Iraq
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When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.
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Creating
Numbers
People
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Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.
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Cells
Hours
Numbers
Significance
Target
Al
Beyond
Eliminate
Frankly
Seek
Objective
Qaeda
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What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.
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Illegal Things
Military
Track
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What we do have to do, is listen to what Donald Trump's been saying about our military. He's called it a disaster. He says our military can't win anymore. That's a direct insult to every single man and woman who's wearing the uniform today.
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Men
Military
Winning
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There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.
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Relationship
Afghan
Assistance
Force
International
Security
Single
Troops
Across
Broaden
Continue
Deepen
Every Single Day
Interactions
Single Day
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, the free peoples of the world look to America as the last best hope for peace and for liberty for all humankind, for we are the greatest country on this planet.
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Allies
Humankind
Liberty
Partners
Greatest
Battlefield
Fellow
Fellow Americans
Last
Planet
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We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.
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Afghan
Nato
Security Forces
Additional
Time Work See
Work Time See
Forces
Presence
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With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.
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Clinton
Illegal Activities
Murder
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And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.
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Abandon
Afghanistan
Flawed
International
Narrative
Nato
Summit
Taliban
Wait
Message
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The Russians haven't helped us at all in the fight against ISIS. When you total up the numbers of sorties that have been going into Syria, aircraft attacks, if you will, going into Syria, when the Russians said they were going to assist, we got a very small number of Russian sorties.
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Fighting
Isis
Small Numbers
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We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.
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Afghanistan
International
International Community
Partnership
Strategic
Pursuing
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And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
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Relationship
Afghan
Difficult
Difficult Situations
Engagement
Operations
Police
Real
Real Relationship
Serving
Single
Soldier
Troops
Across
Conduct
Defines
Every Single Day
Single Day
Situations
Soldiers
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Every American in uniform, in the White House or at home - USA! USA! USA! - we must be a force for unity in America, for a vision that includes all of us. All of us. Every man and woman, every race, every ethnicity, every faith and creed, including the Americans who are our precious Muslims. And every gender and every gender orientation.
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Faith
Home
America
Ethnicity
Force
Gender
House
Including
Orientation
Race
Vision
White
White House
Woman
Creed
Every American
Muslims
Precious
Uniform
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