Believe Quote by Peter Bergen

Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.

— Mitt Romney

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not…

— Brian Schatz

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly…

— Bill Shuster

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for…

— John R. Allen

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration…

— Sherrod Brown

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress…

— Rick Renzi

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces…

— Jim Mattis

I applaud President Obama's decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further…

— Susan Bysiewicz

One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of 2011…

— Peter Bergen

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

— Ken Buck

We are now able to transition out of Afghanistan in a responsible way, making sure that Afghans take responsible for their own security.

— Barack Obama

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

— Hamid Karzai