Jim Webb: “The diplomatic aspects have to be ones that find common cause with those nations of like-minded principles.”

It is imperative that the United States policy be based on a clear set of principles that everyone here at home and in the region can understand.

I agree. Well, let me ask Ms. Burkhalter because I am over my clock here.

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Virginia.

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.