03/13/2018
https://www.congress.gov...
"I agree with that assessment and I also see an opportunity."
"I asked the original question that of what H.R. McMaster called strategic empathy trying to understand your allies, your adversaries, and everyone in between, as opposed to what we occasionally engage..."
"Unprovoked aggression by an authoritarian regime is doing something that the experts said was impossible in today's interconnected world."
"The Taliban takeover of the country in August of last year following our tragic withdrawal and the subsequent economic collapse."