Adam Smith actually said...

"I think it is important that President Karzai understand that Afghanistan actually needs the Bilateral Security Agreement more than we do."

"I think the single most important thing right now is to get that Bilateral Security Agreement to eliminate some of that uncertainty as to what exactly our role is going to be post-2014."

"if we do, the Afghan government will never truly be sovereign, will never truly be stable and will never truly have the respect of the Afghan people that it needs to be the sustainable government that..."

"In my view, the President's approach is fraught with unnecessary risk."