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Senator Reed, we are on the right track now.

That transition point is not a withdrawal, but it is a transition to a different mission.

I think we met about 40 years ago and in the intervening 40 years he has acquitted himself magnificently as a soldier.

Violence and progress coexist in Afghanistan, and sometimes the violence blinds us to the progress.

it's a moral imperative that we use everything we have to ensure that they get out of it.

There's no doubt in my mind it is, sir.

The enemy is not monolithic, and we have to adapt to how the enemy has adapted, but, yes, sir.

Rhode Island faces the Nation's third highest unemployment rate at 12.7 percent and a recession that hit earlier than any other State.

This is not a strictly, indeed, perhaps even most importantly, a military operation; it's a combined military-civilian operation.

their lives are on the line whenever they do that.

our role there is to make sure that sovereignty is not destroyed by a extreme group, the Taliban.

it's not just our mission, it's their mission, which we're helping them to succeed with.

In my view, there's some demagoguery going on over here on this issue.