Chris Coons actually said...

"There are difficult choices for the government there involved between guns versus better types of decisions."

"Can we afford to wait what may well be a year for planning, training, assembly of a regional force for the completion of negotiations for a successful election?"

"We should not hold the continued movement toward democracy hostage to the success of the military operations."

"I also have concern anytime al-Qaeda takes advantage of a vacuum or flows into an area because of poverty or because of lack of governance."