What caused what was really a promising situation to deteriorate to a now almost universal opinion that we are not winni...
So moved.
I think this is the only way that we can unite the effort successfully.
We need to bolster the quality and size, not only of the troop presence and for that matter the civilian presence in Afg...
We cannot simply subordinate our Pakistan strategy to our Afghanistan policy.
Should the Karzai Government talk to the Taliban?
The problem in Afghanistan today is that we have tried to win this war without enough troops, without sufficient economi...
They alone didn't work in Iraq.
Dictated by the realities on the battlefield?
Certainly an increase in corruption.
It alienates both Afghan and Pakistani populations?
17,000 additional forces are at best two-thirds of what his requirement would be.
We need to combine our top-down approach in Afghanistan of building up the Afghan army and the Afghan Government with a ...
I must remind everyone that those are State school, not Ivy League prices.
I will expect full disclosure when those problems arise.
Through the work of this Subcommittee, I believe that we have kept that promise alive.
I vow to take seriously the responsibility of turning the promise that this new GI Bill offers into a fully functioning ...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the original GI Bill, he stated forcefully that 'it [gave] emphatic notice to the men ...