Chuck Hagel: “Mr. Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He echoes what Senators Roberts and…”

“Mr. Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He echoes what Senators Roberts and Cleland have talked about; that is, the vital interests of our country in world affairs. He suggests that America's two Presidential candidates this year, Governor Bush and Vice President Gore, focus attention in the remaining months of this Presidential campaign on international issues. He lays out a number of areas in the world that are of vital consequence and concern to not only those particular regions but to the United States. The point is, others are coming to the same conclusions and realizations as our friends from Georgia and Kansas: that international relations is the completeness of all of our policies--trade, national security, economy, geopolitics. It is, in fact, a complete policy. We are living in a most unique time in history, a time when everything is possible. We live in a time when we can do more good for mankind than ever in the history of the world. Why is that? It deserves some perspective and some review.”