Joe Courtney actually said...

"I would hate to see us walk away--or be seen as waking away from those gains."

"We cannot stay in Afghanistan forever for a wide variety of reasons."

"I encourage you, just in recognition of sort of maintaining the integrity of our effort, that we do everything we can to help the Afghans who have helped us, especially those translators."

"We cannot be a permanent crutch. We have to transition."