I would suggest that we work up a joint written question for the record that could be answered in an accelerated fashion before the confirmation comes before the whole committee.

I think this is a great fit and I will be a very strong supporter and hope to be working with you on some of these issues in the near future.

We are the key, I think, to the strategic balance in that region.

At the same time, we have a situation where when the President unilaterally decides to begin a military operation and then continues it, where, clearly, I think as a former Member of Congress, you would agree that Congress needs to be…

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 would hope that part of the reexamination of the strategy is a realization that the model that we put in place in Afghanistan is not going to be the model of the future.

There are military cultures and there are cultures within the military cultures.

I recommended the creation of this position in 1985 in a memorandum to Caspar Weinberger.

I'm the chairman of the subcommittee that's going to have to evaluate this proposal.

I appreciate or was gratified to hear your response to Senator Collins with respect to the need to rebuild our Navy.

I did hear you agree with Senator McCain or to his comment that nobody is thinking about putting American ground forces in Libya?

But when you have a situation like in this case where the justification is humanitarian, you can see the potential for a very broad definition of what a humanitarian crisis is.