I am not ready to concede that the line should be wiped out with no geographic limits, no time limits, no style of force limits.
We have had serious conversations about the potential of using a nuclear weapon in--as a first-use weapon both in Vietnam and in Korea.
We have not been checking and balancing the executive branch for 60-some odd years, maybe longer.
It has not generally been the retention of the potential for first use as it has been assured destruction.
I am profoundly disappointed in what happened today. I think part of leadership is putting yourself in other people's shoes.
Thank you for your continued advocacy to identify and pacify our funding fix.
I do think many of you or maybe all of you have spoken to the cycle we are trapped in of we are just depleting the funding on the front end ...
But you couldn't do it through a timber sale because that didn't give the at least 10 year horizon that the owner needed to be able to inves...
I think use of that term gives cover to the military in a way that is totally unacceptable.
We need to respond with enormous moral clarity and force on this issue.
You cannot really call on all parties to speak forcefully if our own President is not speaking forcefully.