In Iraq we're on offense? The Iraqi people, the Iraqi security forces?
The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the secu...
So they're not held in high regard, they don't have an air force, they don't have any armor, but they're winning.
The balance that we're trying to achieve is not to put everybody in Afghanistan in jail because that's counterproductive...
About 55 percent of the American people in polls said that they did not support us staying in Afghanistan.
You either win or you lose, and I think everybody wants to win.
We could send a million troops and that will not restore legitimacy to the government; do you agree with that?
The combined Afghan security forces and all coalition forces at this moment are not enough to reverse the lost momentum,...
I support President Obama's efforts to interject more troops.
I think the U.S. Army, and particularly the National Guard, are training the police.
I support what the President's doing. I want the American public to know that this has been a NATO operation all along.
I think it was a miserable failure and that we now are having to take that job upon ourselves.
the American people need to understand this is going to be difficult, it's going to be more expensive, more lives are go...
I think the cost of the Afghan Army at that level's going to be $3 or $4 billion, at the very minimum.
I hope our allies understand that the outcome in Afghanistan is important to them, just as it is to us.
Could you take a look at it and give me an opinion about that?
If NATO fails in Afghanistan, it will never recover.
I think you're excellent choices for the jobs that you're about to take on, and I'm sure you'll be confirmed by the Sena...
