Jack Reed actually said...

"There is a possibility that there could be a serious crisis of legitimacy that will impair the ability of a very dysfunctional government to function at all."

"I think we need to get through these elections, see what the results are, see who we're dealing with, what the government looks like, and move forward accordingly."

"Regardless, I think, of the presence of U.S. forces there, the limiting factor appears to me to be the Afghan forces."

"I consider the threat from lack of governance to be equal to the threat from the Taliban."