You have written in the past, that you believe that there should be a residual force in Iraq of approximately 60,000 American military, do you still believe that?
I would hope that we could proceed forward in a very careful way, in terms of making any more mandatory obligations as t...
NATO expansion originally started out as being very much about creating a Europe that's whole and free.
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 situati...
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.
We're entering a period where DOD, and I think the people at this table understand it--other people in DOD have to reali...
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 ...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, Mr. Chairman, I would offer a comment about the preparation that Dr. Westphal has made f...
For every slot that is given to one person, it is arguably taken away from someone else.