if President Karzai continues to insist on us turning over 3,044 law-of-war prisoners that we hold at Parwan prison humanely, a great center of intelligence gathering, if he insists turning those prisoners over to an Afghan legal system…

Maybe we should be thinking about are these requirements too severe, given the threats that we face and all the good programs are at risk.

I would just say to our Afghan partners and friends that if you do not get the Strategic Partnership Agreement, then the other things are not going to happen.

We have a window of time here to engage both countries, and it is in our national security interest to provide the assistance.

the United States needs to build a more normal defense relationship with Georgia, including defensive arms sales in coordination with our NATO allies.

I want to be on the record denouncing Senator McCain's attack on the University of Alabama.

I just find that hard to believe. The U-2 is a great platform and great crews and maintainers, but I just can't believe that a manned aircraft can do all the things that these drones are capable of doing for the next 25 or 30 years.

I just envision more drones, fewer manned aircraft when it comes to surveillance, because the cost of losing a pilot in a war is a lot different than it is losing a drone.

But somebody needs to be, and maybe that's what we're all up here for, is to try to find out the long run and not create budget crises that really make short-term decisions that are not long-term smart.

What I am about to provide to the body, I think we need to absorb and be aware of. This study that Senator Leahy is talking about, an analysis of the effectiveness and cost, is an ongoing endeavor. I would like to know more about what the…

The Senator is absolutely right. When we look at the utilization of the Guard and Reserve since 9/11, it has been at World War II levels. When we go into the combat theater, we can't tell the difference between Guard, Reserve or…

I look forward to working with Senator Leahy and others to bring about what he indicated to make it a reality. The bottom line of this whole discussion is that the Cold War is over. We are very proud of our standing military, our Army…