Don Bacon: “It seems to me that deterrence in Taiwan should be one of our top national security priorities because day one of the…”

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

It's not good for our national security, and we are allies. We have to work together to counter Russia, to counter China.

I think he needed to set appropriate and honest expectations here.

I think he was setting maybe false expectations in the previous months... This is going to be a longer term fight.