Sam Brownback: “Mr. President, the situation in Kosovo is clearly a very serious one deserving of our deliberation and vigorous debate.…”

“Mr. President, the situation in Kosovo is clearly a very serious one deserving of our deliberation and vigorous debate. To this point in time, though, the administration, for my satisfaction, has certainly not provided the Members of the full Senate body with the information needed to make an informed decision on this matter. Therefore, I will vote to table the resolution. One month ago, I wrote to the President asking that he respond to certain fundamental questions regarding the objectives and the implementation of the NATO mission in Kosovo. To date, I have not received a response to those questions. What is the objective, I put forward? They have been responding and defining some of that as we have gone along, but more specifically, how do we define success? Is there a coherent and achievable plan of action in place? What price would we pay for this in terms of potential loss of lives? What about the monetary cost?”