八位总统候选人都宣称支持安全协议，但这并不能令美国安心，因为大部分候选人过去都曾直接反对美国的利益 — — 更不用说其中一些还是前任或现任军阀了。
While all eight Afghan presidential candidates claim to support the security accord, this may offer little comfort to the US, given that most of the candidates have directly opposed US interests in the past – not to mention that several of them are former or current warlords.