Jim Webb actually said...

"We're entering a period where DOD, and I think the people at this table understand it--other people in DOD have to realize that these budgets are going to get a lot tighter, these programs are going t..."

"Stability is one issue. But being mandatorily committed to coming to the defense of a country...is very troublesome."

"If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way."

"You don't see--and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth--from what I'm hearing, you would not analogize the situation in Iraq to, for instance, the basing system that we have in Korea."