The surge worked, and you supported it?
I want to know what the strategy is, which entails what we deploy, what forces are necessary, what actions need to be ta...
That's not a strategy.
I'm asking do we have a proposal?
For you to sit there and say that we tried obviously contradicts three of the most respected people in America.
Our strategy against ISIL is, first and foremost, to defeat that organization across both of our----
It's very regrettable because we have five nominees, the most I've ever seen, in a very truncated process here.
I think that it is the unanimous opinion of every military leader that I have met that continued sequestration on the pa...
Obviously, that has to have an effect on morale of our officer corps.
In fact, we were told recently in Kabul by Afghan military officers, they say, 'You are abandoning us.'
Isn't it true that right now, the way that the counterterrorism capability of the Afghans are today, that we cannot aban...
We'll be fighting this for years to come, but facts are stubborn things and we could have left a residual force if we ha...
Would you agree that perhaps one of the greatest responsibilities that Congress and the military has today is to review ...
The fact is that we need a conditions-based decision because we right now are not confident that the Afghans can take up...
Isn't it a fact that as long as the Taliban have basically a sanctuary in Pakistan that this situation will remain extre...
Did anybody recommend that we have a conditions-based decision about what kind of residual force we should leave behind?
The fact is that the President of the United States--there was never any public statement that the President made, the U...
One would hope that the President of the United States would look at the nightmare in Iraq today.
