The idea that we are going to defeat the Taliban, peace is going to come, and we are going to have a stable government there, most people think is insane.

These are surrender talks. We are waving the white flag, basically saying to the Taliban, you win, we lose.

It will take strategic patience and it will take continued U.S. engagement.

We can't keep doing things the same way we have done them to date.

If we do things to undermine the alliance in what appears to be a gratuitous way without working with them, it undermines the strength of that alliance and plays right into Russia's hands.

I feel very strongly that, as I think every member of this committee does, that the NATO alliance has served our country very well.

I think that is something that there is bipartisan consensus on.

I do think that what Secretary Esper has done with the bottom-up review... is a very appropriate thing to be doing.

I think we need to make clearer to the American public why we have troops deployed in Europe...

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