In your judgment, would additional troops on the ground in Benghazi have prevented the loss of life from the assault that we sustained?

Do you agree with the reports that have suggested that Osama bin Laden was emboldened by what he perceived as the lack of a vigorous response of the United States to prior terrorist attacks and that that was a contributing factor to…

Is it correct then that had the Department of State responded to the request from the Ambassador for additional security and requested from DOD additional security, that that would have been provided in Benghazi as well?

If the State Department had requested additional security so that there were additional boots-on-the-ground in Benghazi, is it your military judgment that that would have prevented the loss of four lives, including our Ambassador, in…

I'd like to also spend a few moments on the decisionmaking as this crisis unfolded.

So if I understand your testimony correctly, in your military judgment there was no way conceivably to get troops on the ground sooner than 13 to 15 hours?

If--and again this is a hypothetical--at 9:42 p.m. you had received a direct order to have boots-on-the-ground to defend our men and women there, what is the absolute fastest that that could have been carried out?

That ultimately is why the Washington Post described your foreign policy views as 'near the fringe of the Senate'.

his foreign-policy views laid out over 2 decades put him, in the words of the Washington Post, no conservative publication, near the 'fringe of the Senate'.

I have real concerns about the United States acting as the world's policeman, and I take seriously George Washington's admonition that we beware foreign entanglements.

I would suggest that it is evidence that, at a minimum, would suggest further inquiry is justified.

the perception and the reality