We have to weigh our choices against what is possible.
A light footprint is a more sustainable footprint.
The purpose of our mission, is what the President said it was: To prevent Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven or sanc...
We must also understand Afghan realities, and recognize the decentralized nature of Afghan society.
we need to recognize that we are in a race against time.
First, it will be the Afghans who must ultimately win or lose the struggle with the Taliban.
President Obama has promised to weigh the recommendations of the top commander in Afghanistan--GEN Stanley McChrystal--o...
I am concerned because, at the very moment when our troops and our allies' troops are sacrificing more and more, our pla...
The future course of our mission in Afghanistan has become one of the most important and one of the most difficult quest...
We must not allow our efforts in Afghanistan to be undermined by a lack of commitment.
I think we have to look at the bigger picture. And one fact that keeps being forgotten here is that 53 percent of Americ...
I agree to you on that John.
I don't think we ought to let Rush Limbaugh's comments drive a conversation like this, about whether the country is raci...
I personally believe there are racists at the fringes, at the extremes here. But I think it's wrong-headed and I think i...
We also know, and we know this definitively, that this should not become a partisan issue.
What our troops are doing is extraordinary, and extraordinarily difficult. We have an obligation to make certain that we...
I am concerned by where we are today in Afghanistan, about the rising number of casualties among our troops and those of...
The danger facing, I believe, the United States and the international community, at the moment, is that we're going to l...