We've been saying it should be done right rather than fast on this and many other subjects recently.
It seems to me it's time for a next generation of licensing.
15 years is an open-ended commitment.
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.
I don't know where we are. You know, are we in or are we out?
As polarized as this country is politically, this is an issue that we really, really all need to pull together on.
No amount of troops in no amount of time will ever be enough to completely achieve success in such a fight.
It validates our adherence to a counterinsurgency approach.
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
I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem.
I think everyone would agree with this--was to get al-Qaeda, to stop al-Qaeda, to squelch al-Qaeda.
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.
