Lindsey Graham actually said...

"a line of defense for America is best achieved by having allies in the region."

"But, somebody's going to have to take Mosul back, right? And we want it to be Iraqis."

"So, we have to realize, politically, that an Iraqi politician has a different calculation than an American political leader, here."

"If you think sequestration is bad for the military, you ought to see what it does to our capability to engage the world peacefully."