Before heading out to Iraq 3 years ago, General Petraeus, you told this committee that the mission was 'hard, but not ho...
What we need to hear from the President...is that the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan will be determined sole...
We cannot afford to have a stay-the-course approach to starting our withdrawal in July 2011, when the facts on the groun...
He is proof that we can win wars, and we need to give him every opportunity, and remove every obstacle, to win in Afghan...
There was not. By any military person that you know of.
I'm sure you may have seen that this committee, the majority decided that we would cut a billion dollars from aid to Ira...
That July 2011 date imparts a necessary sense of urgency to Afghan leaders about the need to take on principal responsib...
I agree with the President, that success in Afghanistan is 'a vital national interest,' and I support his decision to ad...
I appreciate the President's statement, last week, that July 2011 is simply a date to 'begin a transition phase to great...
If the President would say that success in Afghanistan is our only withdrawal plan...he would make the war more winnable...
the performance of the Afghan Government over the past 7 months is not as even or as rapid as we had hoped.
That argues, then, for a reassessment of the July 2011 commitment to begin a withdrawal.
Obviously, one of the biggest problems we're facing is corruption.
How do you ensure that all elements of a local community, subdistrict, district, province feel that they are represented...
the constitution is what mandates the centralization of that government in Afghanistan, and President Karzai is, of cour...
the kind of process that needs to be carried out so that the people do feel that what the 'new Afghanistan' offers is, i...
We're pleased to hear testimony from General Mattis as we consider his nomination to be Commander of CENTCOM.
to stand up for the human rights and democratic aspirations of citizens across the region, especially in a country like ...
