I think it would be a good thing. I think the American people need to know that the Congress of the United States is behind this effort that the administration is trying to mount.
Hadley supports a new AUMF to show Congress's backing for military efforts.
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I think the main thing that we have to think about is how to explain to the American people that our safety and security depends on a different--that we can't wall ourselves off from things.
The president made it very clear it's going to be hard, and there's no assurance for success. The president believes his strategy has a prospect for success. It's going to be hard, the NIE says that. The president has said that.
One of the things I think we have to recognize is that this international order that the United States helped build and maintain for 70 years after World War II was really an almost an unprecedented experiment for a major global power.
Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.