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 budget...

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 i...