It points to a concern that a lot of people who have served and a lot of people who have written about the situation in Afghanistan share. That is that maneuverability is the most effective way to conduct operations against international terrorism.
Webb emphasizes the importance of maneuverability in counter-terrorism operations.
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the rigid nature of the administrative recognition process has been a source of delay, frustration and a lingering sense of unfairness.
It is a comprehensive, commonsense piece of legislation, and I am confident we can put this together on a bipartisan basis in order to save the integrity and the value of the best GI Bill that our country has ever seen.
The federal recognition process has been fraught with challenges that need to be addressed.
I think we should be more open-handed. I think we should move more quickly, not because I approve of the people who have run that government for the last 40 years, but because I want to see them ushered out the door more rapidly.
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