So, we have the speech on Afghanistan. The official text was, according to my computer, about 4,600 words. How many times did certain words appear?
Afghanistan: 44 times
America: 20 times
Terror and/or terrorism and/or terrorist: 3 times
NATO: 3 times
China and/or India: 0
Europe: 0
Victory and/or exit: 0
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