Like Senator Landrieu, I believe that this is the wave of the future.
I don't think the American people are going to accept that.
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 take it over.
I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right now.
15 years is an open-ended commitment.
I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem.
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
I think that's a positive that we should look at, and the fact that we have driven al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan
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.
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.
This is a problem that one could characterize only as a Rubik's Cube on steroids.
The President's new strategy still recognizes the criticality of a broad-based approach to regional problems.
they must begin to accept their responsibility for their own security
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