Ronald Neumann
Ronald Neumann
Ronald E. Neumannis an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Bahrainand Algeria. He is the son of former ambassador Robert G. Neumann and traveled extensively after college in Afghanistan while his father was ambassador there. Both he and his father served in diplomatic posts in Afghanistan precedented only by one other father/son pair, John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams who both served as Ministers to Britain. He pronounces his last name Newmannand his...
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When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.
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There are people who will try to kill candidates and who will try to stop the election, ... They will fail. They have absolutely no chance of stopping this election.
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If you're going to go down this path of encouraging democracy, then to a very large extent you just suck it up.
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There is certainly more violence and there are violent elements trying to come back, ... I think this is a situation that will probably be difficult for some time.