05/18/2010
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"I remain skeptical about the likelihood that this new mission will meet our goals."
"Had Thomas Jefferson had the Congressional Budget Office around, he wouldn't have gone."
"Our strategic imperatives in Afghanistan and Pakistan--crippling al-Qaeda, safeguarding Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and combating violent extremism--are of the utmost importance to our national securi..."
"the Pakistan part of this equation is most troubling to me in the short term, because obviously if we don't secure the nuclear arsenals in Pakistan, and you end up with a fundamental change of order, ..."