OK, somebody has to do it.

Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting in a gunboat near, but not in, Cambodia.

I have that memory which is seared–seared–into me, that says to me, before we send another generation near, but not into, harm’s way we have a responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible to avoid that kind of conflict, the kind where you’re near, but not in, Cambodia, or Iraq, or perhaps Iran, or possibly some place else altogether. Because that kind of thing will sear you.