We've been saying it should be done right rather than fast on this and many other subjects recently.
Like Senator Landrieu, I believe that this is the wave of the future.
I encourage you to continue to look for opportunities to streamline the process.
15 years is an open-ended commitment.
I don't know where we are. You know, are we in or are we out?
But, again, I come back to--the President talked about July 2011. Karzai's talking about 5 years before they're ready to...
I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right no...
I don't think the American people are going to accept that.
The cost of failure, then, is grave.
I think everyone would agree with this--was to get al-Qaeda, to stop al-Qaeda, to squelch al-Qaeda.
I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem.
they must begin to accept their responsibility for their own security
It validates our adherence to a counterinsurgency approach.
No amount of troops in no amount of time will ever be enough to completely achieve success in such a fight.
The President's new strategy still recognizes the criticality of a broad-based approach to regional problems.
This is a problem that one could characterize only as a Rubik's Cube on steroids.
As polarized as this country is politically, this is an issue that we really, really all need to pull together on.
the sense of urgency really seems to be lacking there
