02/08/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"In Afghanistan, we can choose not to squander the gains of the past decade and dishonor the brave Americans who risked and lost their lives there."
"if you are talking about homeland security, you have got to in the post 9/11 age protect your borders, all of them, air, sea, land."
"the enemy is violent Islamist extremism, a political ideology that seeks to justify totalitarian governance by perverting religion."
"Because of the failure, in my view, of American leadership, the term 'radical Islam' or 'Islam extremism' is not mentioned in U.S. policy, which is quite astounding."