Jim Webb actually said...

I would hope that in this process, we can end up with a clearly articulated end-point.

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...

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

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