Jim Risch actually said...

To me, the most important function of a government is to defend itself, and I'm very, very troubled by this.

Risch emphasizes the government's primary duty to ensure national defense.

04/28/2010

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There are questions that we really need to have answered, and it is disheartening that they declined to testify.

The American people want to know who is responsible for this.

The debacle in Afghanistan is an interagency failure, and the fact that you are the only one stepping up is disheartening.

The Taliban's takeover destroyed the basis of that strategy.