I concur completely in your opening remarks about the importance of the region, the importance of our alliance with South Korea, and the danger and the threat that North Korea pose...
We want our troops home. We want the Afghan people back in charge of their own security, back in charge of their own government.
We have made significant progress in achieving our goal in Afghanistan to 'disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat Al Qaeda and to prevent...
I remain very concerned about the President's decision last summer to speed up withdrawal of the surge troops from Afghanistan.
These decisions by the President have made it increasingly difficult to build up trust and confidence with the Afghan institutions.
I have total confidence in you and your command. The challenge in Afghanistan continues to be great.
I think this hearing today is extremely timely, with the American people needing to hear from you on what is really going on over there on t...
Nobody on this committee, nobody in this country wants a permanent presence in Afghanistan.
If we don't want that and we want to succeed in the mission... well, then how do we do that?
We have to transition to Afghan sovereignty as quickly as we responsibly can.
It is my belief that it is time to lean forward on transitioning the responsibility for security to the Afghan National Security Forces and ...