"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."
"I would hope that in this process, we can end up with a clearly articulated end-point."
"NATO expansion originally started out as being very much about creating a Europe that's whole and free."
"I would hope that we could proceed forward in a very careful way, in terms of making any more mandatory obligations as to where our military would be used."
"I think the key thing is to implement the SOFA, and to reduce our role and our numbers there."
"In our current strategic environment, these commitments can affect force structure in the short-term but really not play out to our national advantage in the long-term."
"As a maritime nation, we should improve the quality and strength of our seapower."
"We run the risk, as I mentioned to General Petraeus and General McChrystal, of allowing our success to be defined by something that's never happened before, something that we can't totally control, wh..."
"The Senator Kerry-Senator Lugar bill is very important as far as I'm concerned, because it's not about the $1.5 billion a year as much as it is a 5-year commitment to Pakistan."
"It points to a concern that a lot of people who have served and a lot of people who have written about the situation in Afghanistan share. That is that maneuverability is the most effective way to con..."
"I have often remarked, as someone who grew up in that environment and also had to watch a son and a son-in-law deployed to combat, it is probably harder being a family member either with a father or a..."