Michael McCaul actually said...

I think that it runs a high risk of igniting or reigniting the ethnic civil war that rent the country in the 1990s.

I am not confident that there will be an Afghanistan when the next President takes office.

The stakes are too high in Afghanistan for the Afghan people, for the region, and for U.S. national security interests.

We need to use this leverage to get Pakistan to do more on the counterterrorism front.