Mike Levin: “As long as it takes for those goals to be accomplished. It is because those goals, as important as they are--those are…”

“As long as it takes for those goals to be accomplished. It is because those goals, as important as they are--those are important goals; they could take decades, as I just said to the good Senator from West Virginia, they could take decades--may never be achieved. Those civilian goals may never be achieved. We hope they are, but we cannot be there militarily until those civilian goals are achieved, or benchmarks, and that is why this resolution is the signal, the statement that we must have our ground forces out of there within a reasonable period of time.”