我们认为，安全领域目前的事态发展以及训练阿富汗士兵和执法人员的主要责任在于美国及其北约盟友，他们至今仍未实现已宣布的目标。国际安全援助部队在夏季到来前执行的许多任务同样尚未完成。我们希望，在阿富汗保留8 400名美国军事人员——而不是之前计划的5 500名——直到2017年初，以及在北约华沙峰会上通过的协议，将导致安全领域出现积极的变化。在我们看来，使局势可持续的关键在于训练和装备阿富汗国家安全部队，以便他们能独立捍卫该国的法律和秩序。
We believe that the main responsibility for current developments in the field of security and the training of Afghan soldiers and law-enforcement agents lies with the United States and its NATO allies, which have not to date achieved the stated goals. Many tasks that were taken up by the International Security Assistance Force before the onset of summer remain uncompleted as well. We hope that keeping 8,400 American military personnel in the country through to the beginning of 2017, instead of the earlier-planned 5,500, troops as well as the agreements adopted at the Warsaw NATO Summit will lead to positive changes in the area of security. The key to a sustainable situation, in our view, lies in training and equipping Afghan national security forces so that they can independently safeguard law and order in the country.