We are $21 trillion in debt, and counting. The deficit last year was close to $700 billion, and it is going up, not down.
To say that it is not worth doing is like saying, hey, we have screwed it up so bad for so long...
I think the taxpayers deserve at least the same level of confidence as a shareholder in the use of their money.
I applaud your commitment to doing this, and stand ready to have the committee help you in any way we can.
This is enormously important. There are a lot of concerns at the Pentagon.
I too want to specifically thank Mr. Conaway for his great leadership on this issue.
We clearly have national security interests in how Afghanistan is governed, and Pakistan as well.
This is obviously a very, very difficult part of the world.
how do we get to the point where we can reduce our commitment in Afghanistan so that it is not an open-ended commitment and a blank check?
We have had timelines. We have had troop caps. We have also consistently exceeded those troop caps and consistently gone beyond those timeli...
Making sure that we don't return to those days is clearly in our national security interests.