committee on capitol hill, complaining about how the troops were stretched. how troop rotations were terrible, especially for men and women of the army. because 200,000 people basically taken out of the armed services in the early 1990s. we re fighting a war in afghanistan. we re fighting a war in iraq. we re now engaging in libya. how much longer can the united states continue to ask what it asks of its men and women in uniform? well, joe, you ask a fundamental question. you know, a strategy is a conceptual architecture matched by the resources to wary it out. and clearly right now, we ve got some aspects of the military, air force lift assets. especially operations units army and marine light infantry forces that are on their fourth, fifth, sixth combat tours. we ve had 48,000 killed and wounded. we spent a trillion dollars on these wars. it s tough.