Karl Eikenberry
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"Karl Winfrid Eikenberry" (born 1951) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General (United States)/lieutenant general and former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan/U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. He is currently the William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia–Pacific Research Center/Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), and an affiliated faculty member of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies/The Europe Center at Stanford University/Stanford University.

In addition to his work at Stanford, Eikenberry is on the board of The Asia Foundation, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and Turquoise Mountain Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Council of American Ambassadors and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Class of 2012).

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The question is how to deliver supplies.

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience.

It's a huge effort, it's got to be a sustained effort, and we're here with our Pakistani friends, with our allies, working as a team to get this massive mission done.

We can expect more fighting in the weeks ahead as the enemy attempts to return Afghanistan to the dark days of the past in an effort to impose the will of a very few over the democratically stated choice of many.

We are taking a look back into Europe and the USA and getting more helicopters from there.

Our forces are able to go on the offensive, working in partnership with the Afghan national security forces.

We have to be prepared for uncertainty after the announcement of the candidates.

We are staying on the offensive against the enemies of Afghanistan, and we will continue that process throughout the fall and throughout the winter.

I think that tomorrow what we are going to have with the elections here, we're going to have a record turnout.