Jim Webb: “I just think we have our hands full, and it is not something we should be doing in the future in that part of the world.”

I am committed to trying to make this policy work, at the same time to reduce the frictions that are causing it problems.

We have had a lot of discussion over the last 6 years about the so-called pivot to Asia. I will say as someone who has spent a great deal of time in and out of east Asia that this pivot was heavily influenced by the actions, again, taken…

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

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.