The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the security environment.

We could send a million troops and that will not restore legitimacy to the government; do you agree with that?

The only reason they possibly could have come back is because there's been a vacuum created.

There's a high ground in every war, and there's physical high ground, and in this there's the moral high ground, which I think is essential to win this war.

The point is, whatever relationship we have with Iraq is yet to be determined, I think that's a fair answer.

About 55 percent of the American people in polls said that they did not support us staying in Afghanistan.

I hope our allies understand that the outcome in Afghanistan is important to them, just as it is to us.

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.

I am crying out for our country to realize that if we capture somebody in this war on terror, no matter how vicious the enemy may be, it becomes about us, not them.

I think it was a miserable failure and that we now are having to take that job upon ourselves.

Could you take a look at it and give me an opinion about that?

I support President Obama's efforts to interject more troops.

I really believe that the Federal courts have a tremendous responsibility and role in answering the questions before that we're talking about now.

I support what the President's doing. I want the American public to know that this has been a NATO operation all along.

There is a difference between a warrior and a criminal.

the American people need to understand this is going to be difficult, it's going to be more expensive, more lives are going to be lost, but I hope we understand, as a Nation, the consequences of losing.

You either win or you lose, and I think everybody wants to win.

We need to be that city on the hill, I'm not sure that we can afford to build cities on the hill all around the country.