10/10/2013
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"If we don't stand behind our word on that article, then our word really does mean nothing."
"You don't advocate a diminishment of the resources we are spending with regard to the Middle East or Russia and Europe at this point, do you?"
"The rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, as the term goes, is in my eyes a commitment to continue the pivotal American military role in the Asia-Pacific theater, which has kept peace and stability th..."
"We have to remember that half the population of the world and half of its economy is in that region..."