James B. Cunningham: “The contest between these two visions is the defining theme of our age.”

It is overwhelmingly in the public's interest to let the people of the great state of Michigan decide this matter at the ballot box.

The strategic partnership and the successful NATO summit in Chicago and the Tokyo conference send a clear message to the Afghan people and to the region that Afghanistan will have the support of the international community and of the…

They want us out. They will be willing to do what is necessary to get us out.

But they will be--I think they will be successful in establishing--reestablishing a legitimate political authority in Afghanistan as a result of the exercise of the voting franchise by the Afghan people.