Patrick Leahy actually said...

Sometimes when we ask these questions, they go--not just to you, but to everybody else--they go into some kind of a dark hole

We have long since been supporting extensive nation-building. Perhaps I can be convinced it can succeed. I haven't been yet.

It worries me and it is symptomatic of other places, and there is not a limitless amount of money.

I supported our mission to go into Afghanistan because the mission was defined as to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.