John McCain actually said...

the cost growth of personnel expenditures in general is unsustainable.

the Senate passed the original Goldwater-Nichols Act by a vote of 95 to nothing.

The latest example of that is Libya, completely walking away, and many of us warned that the outcome now seems to be a new base for Al Qaeda...

I might argue that in the days of Kissinger, we were more successful than we are today.