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"’We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline,’ says [Code Pink's Medea] Benjamin. ‘That’s where we have opened ourselves, being here, to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, ‘If the U.S. troops left the country, would collapse. We’d go into civil war.’ A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that.’"