Don Bacon: “Thank you, Chairman, and I want to thank all of our witnesses here today for sharing us with your expert positions and…”

We have a moral obligation to those we have served with in Afghanistan, who serve by our side, helping us out. We had a promise, and a promises made should be promises kept. Absolutely.

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

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

I think it was important for him to level with the American people. This is going to be a tough fight.