03/22/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"The best way to keep this war away from our Homeland is to have lines of defense throughout the world."
"Let the Afghans know that economic aid will be cut off if they continue this."
"if we're smart and we do this right, conditions-based withdrawal, we can leave behind a stable country that can help defend the American Homeland, or, we can leave behind a disaster that will haunt us..."
"Is it fair to say that our national security interests are not going to be judged in history by the day we left Afghanistan, but by what we left behind?"