Jim Webb: “Stability is one issue. But being mandatorily committed to coming to the defense of a country...is very troublesome.”

The disagreements over sovereignty and the potential for conflict have only increased.

If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government.

I am introducing this bill today in response to a recent Supreme Court holding that invalidated the provisions of what has become known as the Stolen Valor Act of 2006. The Supreme Court decision regarded a place in the Stolen Valor Act…

I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported.