Richard Lugar actually said...

You and the President might very well try to pull together... not only the United States, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into a congress of sorts...

Maintaining ties with all of these actors is important.

Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state sitting at the crossroads of a strategic region.

I believe troop withdrawals are warranted at this stage, but our policy in Afghanistan is in need of much more than troop reductions on a po...