Neil Abercrombie: “I believe that the American Armed Forces will be set adrift on a desert sea of anxiety, insecurity, and ineptitude. The…”

“I believe that the American Armed Forces will be set adrift on a desert sea of anxiety, insecurity, and ineptitude. The gentleman from Massachusetts has characterized the present situation with respect to our policy as one of rampant incompetence, but I think that it is unfortunately all too safe to say that that will manifest itself on June 30 with an utter incapacity to discern even momentarily what the military mission of the United States Armed Forces will be at that point, other than to try to survive the day, survive the week, survive the month, survive any stop-loss that the Secretary of Defense might impose on the troops there and then get home.”