For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.
Not one word of Korea. Not one word with regard to Iraq. Not one word with regard to Iran. It's like Wonderland.
We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that's already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.
This interim government needs an infusion of a modest amount of capital in days, not weeks, not months.
I'm talking about people ... who will come in here with guns and understand that they don't have to check with anybody before they return fire.
Relations with many of our oldest friends are, quite frankly, scraping the bottom right now.
It's time for him (President Clinton) to stop saying he won't put them on the table.
Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'.
[If the United States and the new Afghan regime agree to the measure,] there will be the ability to literally give some of the Afghans back their money to govern themselves in the near term, ... We're talking about more than $100 million.
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