Political Quotes

“That is precisely why, when I visited the region in January of this year--I try to go every 6 months or every several months. The officials told me, the U.N., the E.U., all of them said: Senator, if they just keep the money flowing and the police flowing, then eventually we can get some timetable for the withdrawal not only of U.S. forces but other military forces and turn it over to a civil society to operate itself with such security as needed along the borders. We are not pulling out. We are 100 or so miles away for some of our troops in the NATO installations. The sky is not falling in. The Senator raises a key point. For General Clark to come up and say, in effect, that if we take out just the U.S. combat troops--again, leaving 100,000 in NATO, just a short distance away--Milosevic would read that as a signal and come charging across the borders--what does that say to the other allies? There are 32 nations providing armed forces in the KFOR force of a total in excess of 40,000. It says 'You don't count.'”