02/08/2012
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"Is it fair to say that if you are confirmed as Secretary of Defense, that the goal that you see is to turn responsibility for security of Afghanistan over to the Afghans at the end of 2014 and not to ..."
"Our fathers must have come out of the same cloth, which is to value the freedom that America provides is our unique and distinguishing contribution to governance, but to understand that without securi..."
"The President was presented recommendations by the Commander of ISAF, forwarded by the CENTCOM Commander."
"We can't simply--if I can use probably a poorly phrased metaphor here--but, if we were a rubber band and have been stretched over the last 10 years, we can't let ourselves simply contract back to our ..."