Part of the problem in our relationship with Pakistan right now is that they're hedging against an expectation that the ...
But, if we don't arrive at some mutually agreeable understanding of what the end state looks like, such that Pakistan st...
if we get to 'good enough,' Afghanistan will not exist without us, they're going to be our supplicant.
We know of fertilizer plants that are not being used to make fertilizer. They are being used to kill our soldiers.
We know that when we leave Afghanistan, we are going to make an accommodation with the Taliban.
I do not think a greater level of military effort in FATA or in Afghanistan itself will make a large difference in polit...
I do not want to hear about negotiation. I am talking about the military piece of it where we can actually route out the...
Pakistan acts very irrational. I mean, I leave there almost feeling like I have had a Rodney Dangerfield moment whenever...
The answer is, yes, it is safe to use.
But would not the first thing to do to be--to get a design and a cost estimate that you can live with?
So by the end of next year there is a design and a cost estimate.
It is to define the points where we get a real cost estimate and a real design.
When do we get 90 percent design on those two projects?
The objective is not to spend all that money; that is not the objective. The objective is to get the capability for the ...
What do we need to be doing?
How soon before we get--is the policy set on those two projects?
We do not want our nuclear weapons to begin to resemble a collection of wet matches.
I mean, you have got a former mayor here and a former Governor here, so we are frustrated by the lack of executive oppor...
