From a PR [public relations] standpoint, though, it was a rather significant victory for the Taliban.

I thought that usually--my study of warfare is you develop a strategy and you implement the strategy with a plan.

General Campbell, although President Barrack Obama has declared the end of the U.S. `combat mission,' it appears that the United States will still be conducting `combat operations' including counterterrorism operations.

I strongly urge you, when you counsel the President, to do the right thing. We all know what the right thing is.

Well, I thank you. Again, General, I would like to again express my appreciation for the outstanding job you are doing under extremely difficult constraints.

President Ghani has asked on different occasions to continue to have coalition forces.

We have an opportunity now, if we work very hard, to make this reconciliation piece a potential reality.

I don't think there's--if you ask the King of Jordan, I think he would say, absolutely, that they have posed a threat to the stability of his country because of Bashar Assad's actions.

I'm honored and humbled to be in your presence.

In other words, we articulated we were going to get rid of Bashar Assad.

A precipitate U.S. departure, military and political, could put all of those gains and all of those lives at risk.

We can't let Afghanistan become a sanctuary for al-Qaeda or ISIS.

President Obama must replace his plan for unconditional withdrawal from Afghanistan with a conditions-based drawdown.

An increasingly stable and secure Afghanistan is the best way to do that.

You can't talk about Afghanistan unless Pakistan is in that equation.

A group of us met with President Ghani over the weekend, and he was very strong and adamant that this current plan will put the Nation in danger.

But, does it strike you that there is no mention of Bashar Assad or an authorization to do anything in opposition of Bashar Assad?

Mr. President, I rise to speak about an Arizona original-- former Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Senator Goldwater was no stranger to this Senate floor, having served five terms in this body and having been his party's…