We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.

This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.

If there are threats to the United States, then I would of course go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground force.

We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.

You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.

We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.