Good afternoon, everybody. As you know, this weekend, I traveled to Afghanistan to thank our men and women in uniform and our deployed civilians, on behalf of a grateful nation, for the extraordinary
No one can survive alone. And if people feel used, worthless and ashamed, 任何人都无法脱离他人生存。如果人们感觉自己被利用了，没有价值，感到很羞愧， because something horrible has happened to them, then they retreat, and they fall into s
Yet, there is hope. One day a man told me, 然而，他们仍然是有一丝希望的。一天，一个阿富汗人告诉我， "My future does not look brilliant, but I want to have a brilliant future for my son." “我的前途并不光明，但是我希望我的儿子能有灿烂的前程。” This is a pi
So I want to tell you a story -- an encouraging story 我想给大家讲个故事，很鼓舞人心， about addressing desperation, depression and despair in Afghanistan, 是有关解决阿富汗的绝望和抑郁的故事， and what we have learned from it, and how
So everybody needs a sense for the future, and the Afghan sense of the future is shattered. 所以每一个人都要心系未来。阿富汗人未来的观念是非常弱的。 But let me repeat the words of the woman. 但是让我重复一遍那位女士的话。 "Because you have fel
So we also have implemented it already in some selected clinics in three provinces, and you are the first to see the results. 因此我们已经在三个省中挑选出来的诊所中试用了这种方法，这是试验的结果，第一次对外公布。 We wanted to know if what is b
So, I was able to launch a three-year project with Caritas Germany, 所以我得以与慈善德国携手启动了为期三年的项目， and we trained 30 Afghan women and men, and we opened 15 counseling centers in Kabul. 我们训练了30个阿富汗人，在喀布尔开设了15
And I would like to share one short vignette. 我想与大家分享一个小故事。 One Hazara said to his Pashtun counselor, 一个哈拉扎人对他的普什图咨询师说， "If we were to have met some years ago, then we would have killed each other. “如
I would add that much of this progress —- the speed with which our troops deployed this year, the increase in recruits -- in recruiting and training of Afghan forces, and the additional troops a
Now, Sal is a pretty humble guy. And so when he came to the White House he said, “You know, I didn’t do anything special.” He said he was just doing his job, that he didn’t do
This week, I traveled to Afghanistan--to thank our troops serving far from home, and to sign an historic agreement that will help us complete our mission and end the war. As Commander-in-Chief, nothin
This part of the world is the center of a global effort where we are going to disrupt and dismantle and defeat al Qaeda and its extremist allies. And that’s why you’re here. That’s w
