Tom Carper actually said...

"We cannot allow extremists to destabilize this nuclear armed state that has the world's second largest Muslim population."

"To the extent that the Pakistani military has driven out the bad guys and gotten them on the run--we have a lot of people displaced."

"I came away believing we have a window of opportunity to arrest deteriorating security conditions in both countries."

"The possibility that Islamic radicals could destabilize and undermine the Pakistani state has become, frankly, all too real."