As I close out my time here, maybe both of you from State could comment on my view that we may be better off with the ag...
the agreement with the UAE could very well be a model used, not only in the region, but around the world, for the develo...
I met with the sheikh in Dubai, and numerous government officials there, and I can't tell you how impressed I was with, ...
My concern is that the Afghan army in much of the country is essentially a foreign army.
Well, can an argument be made that, in fact, the campaign that the United States has mounted against al-Qaeda leadership...
At the end of the day, it is Afghans who need to be the agents, with our help, but the agents of their own liberation.
The thing that troubled me was the lack of sense of nationality amongst the people.
Unless we have their active cooperation, I just don't think that we are going to get any real traction in this campaign.
I believe we also should, by the way, change the name from Burma to Myanmar.
I would argue that we should nominate a United States Ambassador to Burma.
We need to especially help the minority areas because the minority areas have been the most deprived.
I think we need to take a staged approach--'If you do A, we will do B.'
Natural gas is clean burning and is domestically abundant.
I have stated many times in this committee that Idaho is a leader in clean energy and that I am proud of Idaho's record ...
Increased offshore energy production would support 1.2 million jobs annually.
It's unfortunate that a similar scenario is not playing out today.
We're talking about changing hearts and minds so that we can create better security situations.
It's time our allies and friends step up to the plate and help out, here.
