Our troops have made significant military progress on the ground in Afghanistan.
So moved.
At a minimum, there should be a pause after September to assess the impact of the drawdown.
Mr. President, the Armed Services Committee authorized, and the Congress will soon appropriate, some $290 million for re...
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 dr...
Thank you. I'd like to especially thank the administration for their efforts in this, but I would also like to thank my ...
The two remaining major obstacles to success in Afghanistan are corruption in the Karzai Government and continued sanctu...
So does it surprise you when President Karzai starts looking at a situation where the United States leaves the neighborh...
I think it is critically important to reach the strategic partnership.
I hope that the American people could hear those words exactly as you articulated them.
I do too, militarily.
I sure would be interested in seeing those studies that bring it down to 231,000 or 236,000, General, because then they ...
The American people are war-weary. Public opinion polls show that most Americans want out of Afghanistan.
if the governance has failed then most experts, most commentators, suggest that in the end we will not be successful.
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 ...
Now is not the time to quit. It is the time to recommit ourselves to being successful.
To sustain this fragile process, it's critical that President Obama resist the short-sighted calls for additional troop ...
