At the Lisbon conference, 48 nations plus President Karzai made the decision that there would be a transition going towards 2014, and it would be then that, hopefully, we would be able to transfer responsibility.
Panetta confirms the international agreement for transitioning security responsibility in Afghanistan by 2014.
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Well, it certainly is concerning. You know, having been to the Munich conference a number of times, usually when a vice president or president goes to the Munich conference, he discusses the importance of security between the United States…
I think the United States ought to be part and parcel of any agreement to be able to provide a security assurance to make sure that Ukraine is protected from the kind of invasion that we've seen from Russia.
I think it was Walter Mondale when he was asked about the legacy of the Carter administration, said something like, we told the truth, we followed the law and we preserve the peace.
I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.
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