If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way.

You don't see--and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth--from what I'm hearing, you would not analogize the situation in Iraq to, for instance, the basing system that we have in Korea.

I would hope that in this process, we can end up with a clearly articulated end-point.

NATO expansion originally started out as being very much about creating a Europe that's whole and free.

I would hope that we could proceed forward in a very careful way, in terms of making any more mandatory obligations as to where our military would be used.

I think the key thing is to implement the SOFA, and to reduce our role and our numbers there.

You have written in the past, that you believe that there should be a residual force in Iraq of approximately 60,000 American military, do you still believe that?

Eric Holder is a good man.

I really mean that. You did mention other notable Americans who died of friendly-fire incidents on the battlefield.

As a maritime nation, we should improve the quality and strength of our seapower.

We are in the midst of the greatest economic challenge we have seen in a generation and we need to look for leaders who understand this, who understand history, and who understand the way markets work.

It is all about confidence. And he knew in his heart that his children shouldn't have that attitude, and he always said to both of us, 'Go out, save your pennies, buy a home. It is America. You will be fine.'

heavy is the head that wears this chairmanship. I just want you to know, aside from everything else, how much I appreciate what you do and Senator Shelby, trying to light a candle in this darkness.

How do we get everybody underneath that regulatory umbrella?

It is important, so important that we don't have a whole generation of young people scarred by this deep recession.

I think you have now touched on my second point, regulation and transparency enough or actually looking, as you said, at, in effect, the social utility of some of these products in terms of prohibition or not?

I share Senator Shelby and Senator Reed's concerns that you have voiced, as well, that some of these new tools that have developed, the credit default swaps, hedge funds, failure to have any regulatory oversight on those new tools.

We run the risk, as I mentioned to General Petraeus and General McChrystal, of allowing our success to be defined by something that's never happened before, something that we can't totally control, which is something that concerns me.