I don't understand this willingness to play footsie with Vladimir Putin.
This budget ignores that link. It rewards one part of the triangle and it deprives, starves, the other two.
If we no longer have diplomacy and development as tools to meet international challenges, what does that leave? The answ...
A lot of us think we have a moral obligation to help cure disease, improve access to education, and advance human rights...
I think it is extremely ill--advised.
These proposed budget cuts are a slap in the face to our Foreign Service professionals.
The most disturbing part of the budget, to me, is the explicit lack of faith in government.
This budget doesn't do it, which I think is one of its main weaknesses.
If they don't go somewhere, they turn into exactly what you suggested. They are Al Shabaab; they are Boko Haram.
It is a mixture of not just propaganda but a mixture of politics, a mixture of business and money and corruption.
I will submit that in writing, unless could I have 15 seconds, Mr. Chair?