I appreciate your thoughts, Ambassador Bodine, initially about USAID and the possibilities for much more of a development-oriented strategy on our part, because, as you mentioned, ...
I think that history has shown quite clearly that we benefit by investing in the government that is there, and advancing our interests in th...
We remain wary of attempts to use the fight against terrorism to repress political opposition.
exactly the points that Senator Lugar was making a moment ago.
Tajikistan could become a failed state.
Unsecure nuclear weapons and fissile materiel should be a top priority of our policy.
Whenever there's a nexus of nuclear materiel and corruption, the potential for this materiel to end up in the hands of the wrong people incr...
Due to courageous leadership in countries like Kazakhstan, as well as here in the United States by visionaries like Senators Richard Lugar a...
I appreciate the innovation and dedication that our witnesses have displayed in the past, and their willingness to take on extremely difficu...
it is a lot cheaper to maintain a certain number of Afghan forces than it is to maintain the number of United States and coalition forces re...
there is, essentially, a benefits package to work out how to, in fact, recruit and to retain more Afghans for those security forces.