A stable security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is vital to our national security.
Ambassador Eikenberry and General McChrystal are, as we speak, working on a joint civil-military campaign plan.
We're in this thing to win.
We're in this thing to win. We intend to partner for a long time to come.
Nobody wants it more than he does.
I think that, here again, there may be some parallels with Iraq.
All of our combat forces are to be out by the end of August 2010, and all forces out by the end of 2011.
I have felt, ever since I got this job, that we have been too focused on the central government in Kabul.
We want to communicate to the Afghans this is not an open-ended commitment on the part of the American people and our al...
the July 2011 date was chosen because it will be 2 years after the Marines arrived in Helmand.
How do we refine and narrow the mission to make it achievable, and achieve the objectives, in terms of our own security?