34 Quotes by Lawrence Rita

The soldiers were advised as to the issues they should expect to discuss, and decided among themselves who would speak to each issue as it may arise,

The tension that the commanders feel between heavy presence and lower footprint is something they're measuring all the time.

So they've reviewed the standard operating procedures to see if perhaps we could have been more careful in those cases.

That's not a good way to determine how good or bad things are going - by (counting) how many things are exploding.

There's a lot of people who know that that's an obvious question

As we have already said, the troop reduction will be based on conditions, and one of the important conditions is this election, which will be the latest in a series of political developments.

As you continue to either close or turn over these bases, it's just self-evident that there would be some reduced need for the American presence in those areas,

it's a decision the Uzbek government has to make as to whether or not we would continue to operate from that.

The next step in the process is that the president will decide whether or not he's going to send it to the Congress as is,