"My experience has been that the president would be eager to hear from lots of different voices in this argument so that he can build conviction on what the United States ought to do,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"Both this and the previous government made this 'chain of terror' argument where we have to be in Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaida moving from Pakistan back into Afghanistan because that may prevent future terrorist attacks on the streets of London.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04