If the President would say that success in Afghanistan is our only withdrawal plan...he would make the war more winnable.
I appreciate the President's statement, last week, that July 2011 is simply a date to 'begin a transition phase to great...
I agree with the President, that success in Afghanistan is 'a vital national interest,' and I support his decision to ad...
That July 2011 date imparts a necessary sense of urgency to Afghan leaders about the need to take on principal responsib...
I'm sure you may have seen that this committee, the majority decided that we would cut a billion dollars from aid to Ira...
There was not. By any military person that you know of.
He is proof that we can win wars, and we need to give him every opportunity, and remove every obstacle, to win in Afghan...
We cannot afford to have a stay-the-course approach to starting our withdrawal in July 2011, when the facts on the groun...
What we need to hear from the President...is that the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan will be determined sole...
Before heading out to Iraq 3 years ago, General Petraeus, you told this committee that the mission was 'hard, but not ho...
We saw in Iraq the importance of setting dates as a way of spurring action.