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It's so difficult to shock America these days.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize the consequences of and blowback from our expanding secret wars as they wash over the world.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Iraq is falling apart.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.