02/22/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"You left us before. Will you do it again? You walked away, you left us holding the problem that you helped to create."
"The case for action against al-Qaeda and its allies has always been clear, but the United States course of action over the last 8 years has not."
"the deployment of a single additional soldier makes all the difference, but a public debate that reduces a difficult mission in a complex region to a simple headline-ready number of troops does us all..."
"The Afghans must step up to the plate and do the things necessary that will allow them to take primary responsibility for defending their own country."