Let me tell you about a conversation I had with our Ambassador Khalilzad and General Casey. They both said--this was back before Christmas--that they would not support a surge unless there is a specific plan for success, and the ambassador even said, and I quote, that he did not want more American kids wasting their lives unless he had 'a high degree of confidence in the plan.'
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I would not want us to be there second because what is to say, if you recall the history of China, the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and suddenly they are claiming that is their territory.
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