Adam Smith actually said...

I wish that we didn't have national security interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is a very, very difficult place to work with.

My view is we are in Afghanistan today for the same reason we were in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, to prevent it from becoming a safe ha...

Our outside experts sort of basically said that the strategy is sound. It is the implementation that is key.

It gives us a chance to be deliberative, to listen to experts, and to have a really robust debate about what exactly the agreement does.