Roland Burris: “The mission in Afghanistan is now in its 8th year and is currently at a very critical stage.”

But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?

Thanks to the same old political games.

So you could then withdraw one battalion or a squadron can go home and say, 'well, now we've started our withdrawal,' and then we halt it to see because we don't know what the conditions are?

Although we do not always agree, as the debate on this floor will often show, I am always struck by the passion that drives each and every Senator to stand in this singular place in the world and to speak their mind. It is this passion…