John McCain actually said...

To believe that this is somehow going to hasten success, when the fact is that it enhances dramatically the chances of failure.

It doesn't give Karzai a sense of urgency. What it gives him is a sense of survival.

I continue to urge my colleagues to reject this effort to short-circuit the process--endorsed by the Department of Defense leaders, not by t...

Your job will be to ensure that happens, and no one in this room understands how to do that better than you do.