These tears at the fabric, very fabric of cohesion. And it's important for us to be able to trust the men and women on our left and right.
We will obey the Constitution.
the government has to be accommodating to both the Sunni and the Kurd population, and we have to increasingly get the Sunnis involved.
Clearly, AQAP [Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] is dominant in that country.
I do believe that getting the Sunni population involved is really, really important.
In Yemen, that's really undetermined.
I think the threat of ISIL in the region, Senator, is the most pressing threat that we're facing.
we are encouraged--we continue to encourage the leadership in Iraq to do--to be more accommodating to the Sunni population
We are working as an international coalition to staunch the flow of foreign fighters to the battlefield...
I think a zero option would be very problematic for the country of Afghanistan.
The smaller you get, the greater the risk is to the mission, and the greater the risk to the force.