02/03/2015
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"The United States must work together with like-minded partners and allies to develop and employ a comprehensive strategy that aims to shape China's coercive peacetime behavior."
"addressing the root causes that helped lead to the rise of ISIS will require promoting the conditions for a political arrangement as well as success on the battlefield."
"there's a new hope and a new opportunity, and we have to move forward, understanding it's still a very fragile situation."
"the issues in Iraq need to have a political solution, that military efforts will buy time but not ultimate and decisive success."