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

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.

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.

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 spouse deployed or having a child…

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 conduct operations against international…

As a maritime nation, we should improve the quality and strength of our seapower.

Why, 6 years then after September 11, were we asking civilian contractors to teach our military people how to perform military functions?

Anything that would diminish that status is something we have to guard against.

I really believe the greatest challenge for the VA is simple leadership.

I hope you will do everything you can to reach out to the veterans' groups.