I don't think that level of resourcing was commensurate with the threat either.
Mali's future development must be led by the Malian people.
But the suggestion that we should have an area the size of Texas controlled by terrorists who are engaged in drug traffi...
the United States can be of help to hopefully bring about free and fair elections in 2013
The proximate cause of the coup in many ways was a series of military defeats, and the capacity of the Malian Armed Forc...
I urge the United States to press for a strong human rights component within this military intervention.
Mali is a country in crisis, and when one looks at the human development index, Mali is a country that ranks in the bott...
a response to any one of these challenges must not be dependent upon the achievement of another.
We have to keep certain things in mind. One of them is the connection with Libya.
Can we afford to wait what may well be a year for planning, training, assembly of a regional force for the completion of...
There are difficult choices for the government there involved between guns versus better types of decisions.