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I would think, General Dempsey, it has been pointed out here that we have spent multiple years, 10 years plus, a trillion dollars, lost a lot of lives in Iraq, and we had 100,000 troops there at one time trying to train and defend and get…
The United States has made clear to Russia through political, diplomatic, economic, and defense measures that we do not accept Russia's aggressive foreign policy, and we will defend NATO and honor our Article 5 commitments.
President Ronald Reagan once observed that the government's view of the economy is pretty simple: ``If it moves, tax it.'' Well, today, more than ever, President Reagan's words ring true. Taxes are prohibitively high. We can take a step in…
What's the end game this time? Is it going to repeat what we've done before? Are we going to get bogged down for 10 years or more again?
There is serious concern that a failure to stand up in Moscow in Ukraine and elsewhere will invite Putin's adventurism in the Baltics--creating an Article 5 crisis for NATO.
We have to have a much tougher, much stronger vetting process, or--they don't want to relax that at all.
Why hasn't the YPG [People's Protection Units] or the Syrian Kurds been involved in these talks?
Putin has deployed strike aircraft, T-90 tanks, Howitzers, armored personnel carriers, Russian marines, and housing for up to 1,500 personnel in military bases in western Syria.
This is an expansion of Russian power in the Middle East that we have not seen in 4 decades.
As you can tell, this is a pretty sensitive subject and it is a very concerning subject to all of us.
the administration's requirement that this new Syrian force could only fight ISIL, not the Assad regime, which has killed far more Syrians than ISIL
sitting back and being reactive and then debating it for six months hoping for on-hundred percent consensus among 28 countries is not a formula for success with Vladimir Putin.
The bill that we will be considering is expanding the opportunity for the appellate review of the FISA Court decisions. I think and I can understand that you are saying they can get a FISA order no matter what.
So the bill that we have proposed before us, it is going to require declassification of FISA Court opinions containing significant legal interpretation, which is a positive thing.
It is a good point in the bill that we will be considering, the 2015 FREEDOM Act. It expands the opportunity for the appellate review of the FISA Court decisions, which I think the Senator has had a problem with, too, because it has been…
Did we not see signs that Maliki was incompetent, that he would have gone strictly to a sectarian position?
If the FREEDOM Act goes away and the way they are doing bulk collection, which we agree should be done away with--and we don't come to some agreement--are you concerned that we might be in more jeopardy by not having something in place…