Jim Webb: “These 15-month deployments are going to wreck the Army.”

Senator Webb, your efforts with respect to Burma have played an essential role in this regard.

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.

We look forward to the visit of President Thein Sein next week.

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.