Mark Udall actually said...

"The best generals always seem to work for the newspapers."

"It seems to me--and I'm thinking out loud, which can be dangerous--that if you have a kinetic environment, say at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, if that base were to be overrun by the enemy ..."

"The potential to generate an escalating conflict is not insignificant, much like we saw during the Cold War era with nuclear weapons."

"If confirmed, I will look into the issue and how they impact the Army."