I just want to make sure that we're here to deliver for them, and that's why your testimony is so helpful.

I want to thank you for leading that charge, because I think our warfighters will appreciate that, particularly the marines down south.

Would you support sending Guantanamo Bay detainees to Afghanistan, to Bagram? Is that a good idea?

Some of our allies refuse to turn prisoners over to us if they believe they could work their way to Guantanamo.

We're going to transition this facility to Afghan control.

I just want to let the committee know that you and Doug Stone and others involved with Camp Bucca is probably one of the great, great success stories of Iraq.

Is there a strategy to deal with allowing people to retire early, but incentivizing them to stay from 20 to 30, based on the needs of the military?

We write to express our deep concern about reports that the administration is planning to transfer six Yemeni nationals currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of the government of Yemen. We request an immediate halt…

One of the reasons they've been able to seize power and influence is they can provide services the Afghan Government is unable to provide.

I believe it would be a 9 or 10, not just because I believe al Qaeda would move back in, but also because I believe regional instability as it would spill over into Pakistan and other areas would be absolutely negative to our interests.

But, I can't understand letting Afghanistan go back into the abyss again. That's my dilemma.

So in the next 18 months, to roll them back we're going to put combat power in that we've never had, right?