Joe Courtney actually said...

When our own military is begging them to--begging us to get the flexibility to do the right thing and we refuse to give it to them.

So I thought the single most powerful word in the testimony was Ms. Bensahel's word 'unconscionable.'

This is this committee's chance, under new leadership, to come forward with a realistic and funded defense strategy.

We look incompetent. We look selfish. We look weak.