Watching
exchanges like these, it's becoming obvious that the democratic "strategy" for the house and senate is merely to be as obstructionist as possible, basically taking their "back bench" strategy into their majority role. As far as their strategy for moving forward in the middle east, near as I can tell it's strictly isolationist. Basically, get out ASAP and leave it up to someone else to figure out.
I don't know about anyone else, but it's not terribly clear to me what Palosi et al's vision is to help make the world a better place. Is it that bad people in the rest of the world can do whatever they want to each other, and we'll just ass-u-me that they never cross our borders. I didn't seem to see a glimmer of understanding on the part of the committee members regarding the uncertainty of the future. If you can't predict exactly what the casualty rate will be, then we shouldn't do something. They don't seem to get the concept that if we win and the Iraqi's set up their own government processes, the casualties will go down, if we lose or leave, it's only going to get worse.