Chris Coons actually said...

"But the suggestion that we should have an area the size of Texas controlled by terrorists who are engaged in drug trafficking, kidnapping, that have had an inflow of some sophisticated weaponry from L..."

"a response to any one of these challenges must not be dependent upon the achievement of another."

"Mali's future development must be led by the Malian people."

"I don't think that level of resourcing was commensurate with the threat either."