This is the last best chance America has to get it right in Afghanistan.
It is sad. It would have been sad to have lost in Iraq. It would have been devastating.
So in the next 18 months, to roll them back we're going to put combat power in that we've never had, right?
I believe it would be a 9 or 10, not just because I believe al Qaeda would move back in, but also because I believe regi...
One of the reasons they've been able to seize power and influence is they can provide services the Afghan Government is ...
As America looks in on us, there is growing concern about the reach of government, the debt, the spending, the takeovers...
I think you have made a fundamental mistake here.
We are making history, and we are making bad history, and let me tell you why.
If we are going to use Federal court as a disposition for terrorists, you take everything that comes with being in Feder...
Yes. There are speedy trial rights, which--
I totally agree with you, and, you know, obviously we parted ways on some of this, but these are not easy decisions.
What I am afraid of is the war on terror has become a police action, and I think that undermines our National security.
Now, from the protocols that we would institute from the military side, what would you recommend that our military comma...
I just think when you are at war and the people you have in your capture the commander-in-chief has determined through a...
Right. And under military law, you can hold somebody without any expectation of trial if they are, in fact, part of the ...
If we go down that road, we are going to make this country less safe.
This is an important point here that, you know, the idea of preventive detention, I do not think Senator Feingold is hig...
With all due respect, every military lawyer that I have talked to is deeply concerned about the fact that if we go down ...