A Middle East peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians would enhance our diplomatic and other efforts in the region.
Each defense budget decision is zero sum, providing money for one program will take money away from another.
the decision on Taiwan arms sales is fundamentally a political decision.
the Department of Defense cannot come to America's elected representatives and ask for budget increases each year unless...
if the supplemental is not enacted by the July 4th congressional recess, we will have to begin planning to curtail defen...
I suspect that that is the way it will happen in Afghanistan as well.
I am cautioned to say the Iraq war is ending, not has ended.
the election trajectory in Iraq is basically going pretty much as had been predicted.
We should be able to secure our nation with a base budget of more than half a trillion dollars.
It is simply not reasonable to expect the defense budget to continue increasing at the same rate it has over the last nu...
I think that the war in Afghanistan will end much as the war in Iraq has ended.