I don't think the American people are going to accept that.
I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right now.
But, again, I come back to--the President talked about July 2011. Karzai's talking about 5 years before they're ready to take it over.
I don't know where we are. You know, are we in or are we out?
This is a problem that one could characterize only as a Rubik's Cube on steroids.
I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem.
The President's new strategy still recognizes the criticality of a broad-based approach to regional problems.
they must begin to accept their responsibility for their own security
The cost of failure, then, is grave.
It validates our adherence to a counterinsurgency approach.
I think that's a positive that we should look at, and the fact that we have driven al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan