Thomas A. Garrett: “A wiser man than me said, probably 35 years ago, the nine most frightening words in the English language are, 'I am from…”

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

I would submit that the North Korean regime from 1950 has a history of making a promise and then breaking a promise.

Perhaps have we considered a paradigm wherein we tie aid and development to Afghanistan to eradication efforts?