Angus King actually said...

It seems to me the strategic challenge... is how do we decrease response time while still maintaining a relatively small footprint?

we have to step up the military--our military effort against Assad in some ways

Life is not an on-and-off switch. It's not we have to have a huge infrastructure or nothing.

One of the potential cures, if you will, or at least ameliorations, is greater flexibility to DOD in terms of how it's going to be achieved.