I Think The Most Important Thing For

When President Obama Entered The White House, The Economy Was In A Free-fall. The Auto Industry: On Its Back. The Banks: Frozen Up. More Than Three Million Americans Had Already Lost Their Jobs. And America's Bravest, Our Men And Women In Uniform, Were Fighting What Would Soon Be The Longest Wars In Our History.

I Still Believe The Lewinsky Investigation Was Way Off From The Focus Of What Whitewater Was, Which Turned Out To Be Nothing At The End Of The Process. And I Think That There Were People Who Were Determined As Political Opponents To Not Allow His Presidency To Succeed.

I Saw The President Make The Tough Calls In The Situation Room - And Today, Our Troops In Iraq Have Finally Come Home So America Can Do Some Nation Building Here At Home. That Was The Change That We Believed In. That Was The Change We Fought For. That Was The Change President Obama Delivered.

I Think Indeed Our Response On Counterinsurgency Needs To Be Finely Tuned To The Needs Of Afghanistan. This Is Not Iraq. We Don't Have A Sons Of Iraq Here. We Don't Have The Same Divisions Here That We Had Between Sunni And Shia.

At Some Point, Deliberation Begins To Look More Like Indecisiveness Which Then Becomes A Way Of Emboldening Our Enemies And Allies And Causing Our Allies To Question Our Resolve. So We Shouldn't Let One Component Of This Determine Our National Security Here Which Depends On Providing An Afghanistan Which Denies A Safe Haven To Terrorists As Well As Stabilizing Pakistan. Those Are Our Two National Security Interests At Stake In Afghanistan.