The cost of sustaining the ANSFs will continue to outpace the Government of Afghanistan's near-term resourcing abilities...
The ANSF are on track to reach the goal of completing transition by the end of 2014--as proposed by President Karzai and...
Achieving and sustaining success in each of the benchmarks requires continued congressional support for the Afghanistan ...
I am committed to protecting the U.S. defense industrial base and our national security interests.
Our approach demonstrates strategic patience and long-term commitment.
Any future security relationship would be fundamentally different from the one we have had since 2003.
I think it is real. I think they are making an effort at trying to see if they can find a way to resolve the issues betw...
I do not believe that we can win and change the Afghans or the Iraqis or the Pakistanis from what they believe in.
We want a normal, productive relationship with Iraq going forward--a partnership similar to those we have with other cou...
I think both sides need to roll up their sleeves and get to work on this. It's tough. It's tough politically in both are...
We had a responsibility to respond to that. What we have to do now is to make sure that places like Afghanistan and Paki...
We have a real conflict here.
This Congress has the responsibility, working with the administration, to get us on a track to ultimately reduce that.
The responsibility does lie with the people on that committee to look at the entire Federal budget.
I think from the very beginning the President's made clear that we will have an enduring presence there.
The best signal we can send to the Taliban is that we're going to continue to fight them and that we're going to continu...
I have made very clear that we will do everything necessary to protect our forces.
I think Prime Minister Maliki, he understands that his country cannot allow Iran to be able to conduct that kind of infl...
