To sustain this fragile process, it's critical that President Obama resist the short-sighted calls for additional troop reductions, which ar...
Such an agreement would encourage our allies to make similar long-term commitments.
If we quit Afghanistan again, as we did in the 1990s, and abandon the millions of Afghans who have risked everything to be our allies, the c...
Now is not the time to quit. It is the time to recommit ourselves to being successful.
At a minimum, there should be a pause after September to assess the impact of the drawdown.
The American people are war-weary. Public opinion polls show that most Americans want out of Afghanistan.
I sure would be interested in seeing those studies that bring it down to 231,000 or 236,000, General, because then they would contradict eve...
I do too, militarily.
I hope that the American people could hear those words exactly as you articulated them.
I think it is critically important to reach the strategic partnership.
So does it surprise you when President Karzai starts looking at a situation where the United States leaves the neighborhood?
The two remaining major obstacles to success in Afghanistan are corruption in the Karzai Government and continued sanctuary and support for ...
Thank you. I'd like to especially thank the administration for their efforts in this, but I would also like to thank my two colleagues, Sena...
But it all fits into the scenario that concerns many of us, and that is that the news is dominated by how fast we can draw down and how much...
What happens in Afghanistan has a direct impact on our safety here at home.
Mr. President, the Armed Services Committee authorized, and the Congress will soon appropriate, some $290 million for research into post-tra...
The strategic partnership agreement it seems to me is more important than just an agreement about detentions and about night raids.
if the governance has failed then most experts, most commentators, suggest that in the end we will not be successful.
